From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2016 07:35:07 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule should honor "-c credential.helper" command line argument
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In-Reply-To: <20160203042554.GA21179@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I think the problem is that when git "switches" to working in the
> submodule repository, it clears the environment, which includes any "-c"
> command switches. This makes sense for some situations, but not for
> others. This thread shows a similar problem:
>
>   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/264840
>
> Jens suggested there adding an option to tell clone to pass specific
> variables to the submodule, which I think makes sense. AFAIK, nobody has
> done any work yet on that approach.
>

This is something that I am also interested in, haven't had a chance
to look at it just yet though. I may have some time soon to take a
stab at this.

Regards,
Jake