From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] git-submodule.sh: Add Custom argument input support to git submodule recurse subcommand Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:27:50 +0200 Message-ID: <200805181527.50983.johan@herland.net> References: <1209978582-5785-1-git-send-email-imyousuf@gmail.com> <1209978582-5785-3-git-send-email-imyousuf@gmail.com> <7v7idzxhwp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, imyousuf@gmail.com, Imran M Yousuf To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 18 15:30:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jxixu-0005SO-TM for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 15:30:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753354AbYERN32 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 09:29:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753081AbYERN32 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 09:29:28 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.20.33]:52370 "EHLO smtp.getmail.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752399AbYERN31 (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 May 2008 09:29:27 -0400 Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0K1200H09G4RCI00@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 15:29:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.1]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K1200FSEG2F0H10@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z2.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 15:27:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: from alpha.herland ([84.215.102.95]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K1200BB9G2F92J0@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 18 May 2008 15:27:51 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <7v7idzxhwp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If we want a useful and flexible "recurse", perhaps the only thing we need > to do is a command that lists a submodule directory path, one path at a > time, in optionally different traversal order and depth cutoff, so that > the user can feed it to xargs and do whatever they want to run in there. Yes! As more and more porcelains on top of the git submodule plumbing is created, this is definitely something that is (or will be) sorely needed. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net