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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: preserve all arguments exactly when
 recursing
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 00:30:19 -0500
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Kevin Ballard wrote:

> I tried to write tests for this, but there are only two ways to get args
> with spaces to be accepted and passed to the recursive invocation.
> The first is via the --reference flag, but I don't think it really makes
> sense to use that flag in connection with --recursive and was not comfortable
> using it in a test.

Could you explain this further?  I think --reference pointing to a
repository with objects shared by multiple (sub)projects makes a lot
of sense.