From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:56:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git-status for submodules
Message-ID: <20081121215608.GA27049@foursquare.net>
In-Reply-To: <200811211627.10637.johan@herland.net>

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Johan Herland wrote:
> Chris' workflow is farily easily supported by running git-status within 
> each submodule, like this:
> 
> git submodule foreach "git status; true"
> 
> If the above is too cumbersome to type, one can easily wrap an alias 
> around it:
> 
> git config alias.substatus 'submodule foreach "git status; true"'
> git substatus

Fascinating. :-)  This is not yet released, I see, but thanks very much.

Looking at the git sources, submodule foreach doesn't seem to recurse,
for the nested submodule case Junio mentioned.  It's still a good start.

- Chris