Re: Running git-archive recursively over submodules

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Feb 16, 2010, 10:01 UTC
Message-ID: <201002161101.42493.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <4B7A4B60.3090401@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Tuesday 16 February 2010 08:38:08 Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Thomas Rast venit, vidit, dixit 15.02.2010 21:56:
> > while git ls-files -s | grep -q ^160000; do
> >     read_one_level
> > done
> 
> Am I blind, not seeing a recursion, or is there simply none? I reckon
> you're reading the super project and one level of submodules into the
> temporary index - which is fine for most purposes, of course. I would
> say this is iterating over the submodules of the super project.

Well, the while condition reads "while there are submodule entries in my index". The read_one_level function then replaces those submodules with their corresponding trees, which of course may again contain submodule entries.

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch