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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach remote machinery about remotes.default config variable
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Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Sorry, I may be missing something.
>>
>> Even if you have a submodule, you can go there and that will be
>> a valid freestanding repository.  You can always be explicit,
>> bypassing any behaviour that defaults to 'origin' to avoid
>> ambiguity.
>>
> "git-submodule update" *requires* that origin is defined in all
> sub-modules. There is no way to avoid this behavior.

Ahh.

Does that suggest the new configuration thing is only about the
"submodule update" command, not "remotes.default" that affects
how the non-submodule merge and fetch works?