[Development] Managing branches of Qt's git modules

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:39:20AM +0100, Sean Harmer wrote:
> just a query as to how people do bulk checkouts of different branches 
> when working with the Qt git modules. It would be nice to be able to use 
> git submodule foreach ... but this is a problem because not all modules 
> use the same branching scheme.
> 
cd qt5
./init-repository -f --branch