Re: git submodules and commit

From: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2008, 16:11 UTC
Message-ID: <46dff0320807180911h63999019q5dd56e9341d0fbb6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <32541b130807160843k25f1d7d3u8bfecd6c1c6eab91@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:43 PM, Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/16/08, Nigel Magnay <nigel.magnay@gmail.com> wrote:

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> If you want to work with me on my new submodule workflow (and I'd
> certainly appreciate it!) then I'd suggest one or more of the
> following starting points:
>
> - Take the recursive push, pull, and update operations described
> above, make them general (ie. not referring to my submodules by name
> :)), and add them as commands in the real git-submodule script.  The
> trickiest part here will be figuring out which remote branch to
> push/pull.

See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/69834 ([PATCH] Added recurse command to git submodule) Or search "submodule recursive" in gmane.

The recursive pull,diff,status for submodule is implemented by Imran M Yousuf. And IIRC, with this patch, you can walk through the submodule hierarchy to exectute any command.

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Ping Yin