Git, the D package manager

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On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 19:07:09 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2015-02-02 11:31, ketmar wrote:
>
>> recently ;-) git got a feature "use HEAD for submodule", which 
>> removes
>> this limitation.
>
> If you refer to the 1.8.2 change that made it possible to track 
> a branch in submodule. Then that doesn't make any practical 
> difference, at least not in my experience.

It adds tiny bit of convenience because it becomes possible to 
update all submodules to HEAD of their tracking branch in one go 
with trivial `git submodule update --remote`. But yes, it doesn't 
change anything in how git stores submodules in history.