patmaddox
Allow freezing at a revision
Is it possible to freeze an external at a given revision or on another branch?
Alternatively, how can I use a different branch from the master branch?
Not yet. Specifying a tree-ish is a feature I've had in mind for a long time but just haven't added so far.
You can use a different branch by manually CDing into the external dir and checking out the branch you want. giternal just uses "git pull" so as long as the directory points at your desired branch, and you've set tracking up so that "git pull" works, it should work for you.
You could potentially run into problems if someone has it pointing at master while another's is pointing at a different branch. To avoid this I would say you want to manually check out your desired branch locally, freeze it & commit, then unfreeze it if necessary. freezing it will ensure that anyone who pulls your commit will get the same set of files as you have on your system.
But specifying a sha in the config is definitely desirable. Not sure when I'll make that happen, but patches are certainly welcome.
One problem with freezing so that other people can pull the same files is that unless they have a clean repository they will get the following error when they try to pull the frozen modules:
# git pull
Updating xxxxxxx..yyyyyyy
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge:
vendor/foo/...
...
Aborting
