Re: Making submodules easier to work with (auto-update on checkout or merge, stash & restore submodules)

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On 4/30/08, Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
> Well said.

Thanks.  I'm having a bad day so a little agreement helps a lot :)

>  > We had some discussion on the list earlier about having submodule
>  > checkouts automatically acquire a branch name, so that commits don't
>  > get lost as easily.  I was going to think about this more and
>  > eventually submit a patch, but I haven't gotten to it yet.  Anyway,
>  > the idea is that you have a branch by default, so that you don't end
>  > up in the useless situation of not being on a branch, which encourages
>  > checking in without being on a branch, in the first place.
>
> Can you give a gmane pointer to that thread?

Try this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/78675

Note that this particular message is representative, but is not the
best of the solutions proposed during that thread.  Exactly which of
the solutions, if any, is the best is left as an exercise to the
reader :)

Have fun,

Avery