From: Jens Lehmann Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:38:48 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] rm: don't fail when removing populated submodules Message-ID: <503140C8.3090603@web.de> In-Reply-To: Am 17.08.2012 20:11, schrieb Phil Hord: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jens Lehmann wrote: >> >> I'm almost there. The only thing left is to check if a nested >> submodule is using a git directory. In that case I expect "rm" to >> fail even when -f is used to protect the submodule's history. I >> still need to find a suitable command for recursing the submodules >> and doing that check. > > I suppose the style of this is wrong, but this seems to work for me. > > git submodule foreach --recursive '! test -f .git' Thanks! I was looking for something less expensive, but given that I don't expect removing submodules to be a performance critical operation this test should just work fine.