On Sunday 10 August 2008, Mark Levedahl wrote: > submodule foreach <command-list> will execute the list of commands in > each currently checked out submodule directory. The list of commands > is arbitrary as long as it is acceptable to sh. The variables '$path' > and '$sha1' are availble to the command-list, defining the submodule > path relative to the superproject and the submodules's commitID as > recorded in the superproject (this may be different than HEAD in the > submodule). > > This utility is inspired by a number of threads on the mailing list > looking for ways to better integrate submodules in a tree and work > with them as a unit. This could include fetching a new branch in each > from a given source, or possibly checking out a given named branch in > each. Currently, there is no consensus as to what additional commands > should be implemented in the porcelain, requiring all users whose needs > exceed that of git-submodule to do their own scripting. The foreach > command is intended to support such scripting, and in particular does > no error checking and produces no output, thus allowing end users > complete control over any information printed out and over what > constitutes an error. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@xxxxxxxxx> Hi, I was about to send an equivalent patch, but you beat me to it. Yours is shorter and more elegant as well, so thanks for saving me the embarrasment ;) So, FWIW: Liked-by: Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Johan Herland, <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> www.herland.net -- 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
