On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This introduces a new helper function in git submodule--helper > which takes care of cloning all submodules, which we want to > parallelize eventually. > > Some tests (such as empty URL, update_mode=none) are required in the > helper to make the decision for cloning. These checks have been > moved into the C function as well (no need to repeat them in the > shell script). > > As we can only access the stderr channel from within the parallel > processing engine, we need to reroute the error message for > specified but initialized submodules to stderr. As it is an error > message, this should have gone to stderr in the first place, so it > is a bug fix along the way. > I was recently working on a way to make submodule pass some parameters from the parent project into the submodule project (specifically settings regarding authentication such as using an authentication helper), and I think this would make it easier to do. Thanks, Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html