From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:08:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] git-submodule: replace duplicated code with a module_list function
Message-ID: <7v8wuo619x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <48AF533E.9020102@gmail.com>

Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com> writes:

> Actually, this was by design, not mistake, though we did not discuss
> this at all. I'm not sure what the semantics would / should be: first
> of all, some part of "$@" is the command to be executed in each
> submodule, and as written "$@" in its entirety is what is used. Also,
> as written and documented, foreach operates in each checked out
> submodule, not a subset. I guess the basic questions are:
> a)  What specific option or options to git ls-files makes sense here?
> b) How do we distinguish the ls-files options from the command to be
> executed?

Ah, I was blind.  For (a) I do not see any need for "option" but
pathspecs; and (b) I agree is a real problem.  We of course could do
something like:

    $ git submodule foreach -c 'your command here' your pathspec here