Re: [PATCH] git submodule foreach: Skip eval for more than one argument

From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Mar 4, 2014, 14:57 UTC
Message-ID: <20140304145703.GE11566@login.drsnuggles.stderr.nl>
In-Reply-To: <CALKQrgfC1Cf=ZnwhaDUz-2q=vLa0UbO4ONybvCPu7RiF+3sm3w@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:53:24PM +0100, Johan Herland wrote:

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> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl> wrote:
> > matthijs@grubby:~/test$ git submodule foreach echo '$name'
> > Entering 'test'
> > $name
> 
> jherland@beta ~/test$ echo '$name'
> $name
> 
> What would you expect echo '$name' to do?

If I run git submodule foreach each '$name', then my shell eats the single quotes (which are only to prevent my shell from interpreting $name). git submodule will see $name, so it will run echo $name, not echo '$name'.

> What happens if you use double instead of single quotes?

Then my shell eats up the double quotes _and_ replaces $name with nothing, so I can't expect git submodule to replace it with the submodule name then :-)

Does that help to clarify what I mean?

Gr.

Matthijs