As an example to make this clearer:
$ cat .gitmodules
[submodule "sub1"]
path = sub1
url = git://example.com/sub1.git
remote = remote1
branch = branch1
update-source = submodule-upstream
update = rebase
[submodule "sub2"]
...Means that `git submodule update sub1` will fetch remote1 and rebase the current sub1 checkout against the tip of remote1/branch1. The git://example.com/sub1.git URL is not actually used during this update. Presumably the user setup remote1 intentionally in the submodule, and wants to use the URL they've configured there. Perhaps I need to ammend my submodule update: add submodule.<name>.remote config option patch (#4) to adjust the remote that has it's URL changed by `sync`? I may also want to append some form of the following commit (from my submodule.<name>.active proposal): submodule add: configure existing submodule url if not set [1] Cheers, Trevor [1]: https://github.com/wking/git/commit/b045c16cffe6eb86c157a6c7397166a46e147442 -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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