On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 09:15:32PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote: > I still fail to see what adding that functionality to the submodule > command buys us (unless we also add code which really uses the branch > setting). What's wrong with doing a simple: > > git config -f .gitmodules submodule..branch > > on the command line when you want to use the branch setting for your > own purposes? You could easily wrap that into a helper script, no? Sure. But why maintain my own helper script if I can edit git-submodules.sh? It seems like a number of people are using this config option, and they generally store the same name in it that they use to create the submodule. This way I can save them time too. -- 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