On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:51:28PM +0100, Heiko Voigt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 08:10:04PM -0800, W. Trevor King wrote: > > Here's an attempted summary of our desires, and my ideal route > > forward: > > > > * Preferred local submodule branches for each superproject branch. > > * Not currently supported by Git. > > * Requires some sort of per-superproject-branch .git/config. > > * Fall back to the remote-tracking submodule.<name>.branch? > > > > * Auto checkout of the preferred branch > > * Can do this at clone-update time with my patch. > > * For later submodule branch switches, maybe we want: > > > > git submodule checkout [-b <branch>] [<paths>…] > > > > Then if a user blows off their detached HEAD, at least they'll > > feel a bit sheepish afterwards. > > Well, for development on a detached HEAD in a submodule we are currently > not very careful anyway. A simple > > git submodule update > > will already blow away any detached HEAD work.
Only if you use the checkout strategy. With --merge or --rebase, you'll have the $sha1 (or upstream remote with --remote) integrated with your detached HEAD work. You end up with a new detached HEAD containing the result of the integration (just confirmed with tests using Git v1.8.3.2). That seems reasonable to me, so I'm happy with the integration logic. > But AFAIK it should trigger the "you are leaving commits from a > detached HEAD behind" warning, so there is some safeguard and > recovery. I did not see those in testing with Git v1.8.3.2, likely because of the '-f -q' we pass to 'git checkout' for checkout-mode updates. Regardless of branch integration issues, I think a per-superproject-branch preferred submodule branch is important for 'git checkout' to work in the superproject. If you want: * submodule branch master for superproject branch master, and * submodule branch my-feature for superproject branch my-feature, $ git checkout my-feature in the superproject is currently going to leave you with the submodule on master, which is not convenient ;). I think we should come up with a better solution to the superproject checkout problem before adding in additional complications due to branch integration ;). Cheers, Trevor -- 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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