Inspired by a conversation in our development chat:

James Pearson     The group around your desk has disappeared. Did a solution present itself?
Scott Vanderlind  @James Not entirely. @Cedric offered "good luck" and @Adam said he'd look into the runtime error the switch script was throwing.
Cedric Wienold    @Scott when in doubt, use pure git
Daniel Beardsley  @Scott --weird... is the submodule not added correctly?
                  ya.
Cedric Wienold    git co branch
                  git pull
                  git sm init
                  git sm update
                  git pray

Deities

1. Athena
2. Dagr
3. Jehovah
4. Jupiter
5. Kwisatz Haderach

Example

[$]> DEITY='Jehovah' git pray
Our Father in origin,
   hallowed be your ref.
May your commits come soon,
   and may your pull requests be merged,
   on master as it is in origin/master.
Give us today our daily SHAs,
   and forgive us our push -fs
   as we have forgiven those who push -f against us.
Lead us not into Subversion,
   but deliver us from detached HEAD.
For yours is the source code, and the power, and the glory, forever.
Amen.