"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 8/4/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> As we explicitly allow
>> submodule checkout to drift from the supermodule index entry,
>> the check should say "Ok, for submodules, not matching is the
>> norm" for now.  Later when we have the ability to mark "I care
>> about this submodule to be always in sync with the superproject"
>> (thereby implementing automatic recursive checkout and perhaps
>> diff, among other things), we should check if the submodule in
>> question is marked as such and perform the current test.
>
> Yes, this sounds like a sane plan (and a good explanation of the
> current semantics: maybe something to include in the release notes for
> 1.5.3?)

The submodule Porcelain is a new thing in 1.5.3, so we would
need a good description of what the current rules are and what
our vision for future enhancement will be.

I am not certain however the above is the accurate description
of the current design and the direction we would want to go,
though.  Somebody needs to sanity check me.

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