Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: preserve all arguments exactly when recursing

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2010, 05:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20101103053019.GC10631@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1288758882-77286-1-git-send-email-kevin@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard wrote:

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> 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.