Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: preserve all arguments exactly when recursing

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Nov 3, 2010, 05:36 UTC
Message-ID: <B581ED92-DC3D-4F62-99B1-3D02C95471DE@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101103053019.GC10631@burratino>

On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Kevin Ballard wrote:
> 
>> I tried to write tests for this, but there are only two ways to get args
>> with spaces to be accepted and passed to the recursive invocation.
>> The first is via the --reference flag, but I don't think it really makes
>> sense to use that flag in connection with --recursive and was not comfortable
>> using it in a test.
> 
> Could you explain this further?  I think --reference pointing to a
> repository with objects shared by multiple (sub)projects makes a lot
> of sense.

I hadn't given it a lot of thought, but I suppose you're right. I'm used to using submodules to pull in disparate projects that don't share objects, but I can imagine having repos that do share objects. I will try to write a test for this using --reference.

-Kevin Ballard