Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Introduce git submodule add|update --attach

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 09:31:14 -0800

Francesco Pretto <[email-masked]> writes:

> Thanks for the comments, my replies below. Before, a couple of general
> questions:
> - I'm also writing some tests, should I commit them together with the
> feature patch?
> - to determine the attached/detached state I did this:
>
> head_detached=
> if test "$(rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)" = "HEAD"
> then
>     head_detached="true"
> fi

Use "git symbolic-ref HEAD" to read off of it.