Re: [PATCH 0/9] Progress with git submodule

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> On 2015-08-28 03:14, Stefan Beller wrote:
>
>> Stefan Beller (9):
>>   submodule: implement `module_list` as a builtin helper
>>   submodule: implement `module_name` as a builtin helper
>>   submodule: implement `module_clone` as a builtin helper
>
> Another thing that just hit me: is there any specific reason why the underscore? I think we prefer dashes for subcommands (think: cherry-pick) and maybe we want to do the same for subsubcommands...
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>

Junio wrote on Aug 3rd:
>>>     $ git submodule--helper module_list
>>
>> Why would you use an underscore in here as opposed to a dash?
>
> Simply because the diff would be easier to read; the callers used to
> call module_list shell function, now they call the subcommand with the
> same name of submodule--helper.

I mean no user is expected to use the submodule--helper functions directly and
we want to get rid of them eventually anyway (once the whole git-submodule.sh
is rewritten in C we can just call the C functions instead of calling
out to helpers)
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