From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:22:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-submodule - Add 'foreach' subcommand
Message-ID: <200808110022.33696.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <1218386647-2348-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com>

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@gmail.com>

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:

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