Re: Option for "git submodule foreach" to also run on the parent git?

From: Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2026, 17:43 UTC
Message-ID: <66419a04-67b0-4b60-bf23-078cf92b2c04@nutanix.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqsea9591f.fsf@gitster.g>

On 2026-03-09 15:15, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Florian Schmidt <flosch@nutanix.com> writes:
> 
>> would there be an appetite for a new option to "git submodule foreach"
>> to run the foreach command on the parent git repo as well?
> 
> Not from me.  After all, the top-level superproject is not a
> submodule from the point of view of the tree, is it?  If it were
> "git submodule-and-superproject foreach", then perhaps,

True, I was thinking that, but figured an option such as "--also-parent" would be sufficiently clear as to what's happening. But I can see that it's maybe pretty niche and potentially confusing.

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> but at that
> point, wouldn't it be simpler to explain what you are doing as
> 
>      do-this . ;# do it here
>      git submodule foreach do-this ;# do it there all over

That's basically what's I'm doing. I figured instead of doing "foo && git submodule foreach foo", a "git submodule foreach --also-parent foo" would be marginally neater. But I don't feel strongly about it.

Cheers, Florian