Stefan Beller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now that I look around more, it seems that other submodule--helper subcommands > > have the same strange behavior of overwriting the 'prefix' var. So I take > > back my suggestion of using a different variable --- that can be addressed in a > > separate patch that deals with them all at once. [...] > I plan to fix that up in all the submodule--helper commands once this > long running series is in, > but for now we want to keep it consistently awkward? Exactly. > I plan to replace that to be > > git -C $wt_prefix submodule--helper <command> > > which then doesn't carry a prefix option, but can rely on the prefix from its function > signature. Interesting --- git sets a GIT_PREFIX environment variable (in the same spirit as GIT_WORK_TREE) but doesn't read it. Using -C is probably the simplest way to go. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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