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From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] git-submodule add: Add -r/--record option
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:03:01 +0100
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Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
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To: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:19:12AM -0500, W. Trevor King wrote:
> The benefit is that =C6var's
>=20
>   $ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel=
/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull'
>=20
> becomes
>=20
>   $ git submodule update --pull

There is an important question still unanswered here for me: How does
the submodule get the configuration what the local branch tracks on the
remote side?

Cheers Heiko