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From: "Sean Barag" <sean@barag.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] git submodule update --remote assumes 'origin' remote
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 09:17:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58d3b7ba-b65d-432f-872d-adea7fad1317@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2d58fe40-9e8c-4653-8170-5411fd3cf6f4@www.fastmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 01 2021, Sean Barag wrote:

> I've experimented with
> introducing fallbacks to `remote_for_branch` in `remote.c` [2] as an
> alternative:
> 
> 1. use remote tracking branch; or
> 2. if there's only one remote, use that; or
> 3. if config.defaultRemoteName is set, use that; or
> 4. fall back to "origin"
> 
> This seems to work (at the very least, no tests fail?), but leaves
> `cd ./some-sm; git remote add foo bar; git remote rename origin baz`
> open to the original behavior.

I forgot to mention that this approach requires `get_default_remote` in
`submodule--helper.c` to use the name of the remote returned by
`remote_get(NULL)`.  That was probably obvious to regular mailing list
readers :D

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-01 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-01 15:46 [BUG?] git submodule update --remote assumes 'origin' remote Sean Barag
2021-03-01 16:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-03-01 17:13   ` Sean Barag
2021-03-01 17:17 ` Sean Barag [this message]

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