Re: [PATCH] submodule foreach: fix recursion of options

>
> Calling
>
>     git submodule foreach --recursive <subcommand> --<option>
>
> leads to an error stating that the option --<option> is unknown to
> submodule--helper. That is of course only, when <option> is not a valid
> option for git submodule foreach.
>
> The reason for this is, that above call is internally translated into a
> call to submodule--helper:
>
>     git submodule--helper foreach --recursive \
>         -- <subcommand> --<option>
>
> This call starts by executing the subcommand with its option inside the
> first level submodule and continues by calling the next iteration of
> the submodule foreach call
>
>     git --super-prefix <submodulepath> submodule--helper \
>       foreach --recursive <subcommand> --<option>
>
> inside the first level submodule. Note that the double dash in front of
> the subcommand is missing.
>
> This problem starts to arise only recently, as the
> PARSE_OPT_KEEP_UNKNOWN flag for the argument parsing of git submodule
> foreach was removed in commit a282f5a906. Hence, the unknown option is
> complained about now, as the argument parsing is not properly ended by
> the double dash.