Re: [boost] Git: maintaining super-project

Subject: Re: [boost] Git: maintaining super-project
From: Philippe Vaucher (philippe.vaucher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-09 08:13:37

>> I think it's worth mentionning that git can track the tip of a branch now:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9189575/git-submodule-tracking-latest/9189815#9189815
>
> If I'm understanding it correctly, that doesn't change things to
> automatically update the submodule to the tip; it just makes it easier
> to guide the manual updating along a particualr branch?

Yes, I though it'd be useful but actually it just allows you to write
`git submodule update --remote` instead of `git submodule foreach "git
checkout master; git pull"`... It might be interesting to use it for
automated scripting tho.

Philippe