From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:11:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] rm: don't fail when removing populated submodules
Message-ID: <CABURp0qujqHRg+PkScNGbHccHyheJZesWBsJSC=crhUczOG7Mg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <502E74F8.4070209@web.de>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> 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'