As using a variable '$path' may be harmful to users due to capitalization issues, see 64394e3ae9 (git-submodule.sh: Don't use $path variable in eval_gettext string, 2012-04-17). Adjust the documentation to advocate for using $sm_path, which contains the same value. We still make the 'path' variable available and document it as a deprecated synonym of 'sm_path'. Discussed-with: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@xxxxxxxxx> --- This patch is same as its previous version. Although here I'll like to add a point that we aim to slowly drop the support of the variable 'path'. Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index ff612001d..a23baef62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -183,12 +183,14 @@ information too. foreach [--recursive] <command>:: Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule. - The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and + The command has access to the variables $name, $sm_path, $sha1 and $toplevel: $name is the name of the relevant submodule section in `.gitmodules`, - $path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the - superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject, - and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject. + $sm_path is the path of the submodule as recorded in the superproject, + $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject, and + $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject. + Note that to avoid conflicts with '$PATH' on Windows, the '$path' + variable is now a deprecated synonym of '$sm_path' variable. Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are ignored by this command. Unless given `--quiet`, foreach prints the name of each submodule before evaluating the command. -- 2.13.0
