Re: [PATCHv9 4/6] git submodule update: have a dedicated helper for cloning

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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
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