From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:38:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] submodule: teach "foreach" command a --revision <tree-ish> option
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On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:
> Nothing I can think of right now, the above is a pretty good summary.
> My gut feeling is that having "git submodule foreach --revision ..."
> recurse through submodules whose work trees are out of sync is pretty
> fragile and could easily lead to inconsistencies. So I tend to think
> adding a custom script to the release process Jay uses which does the
> tagging itself might be a better solution here. Opinions?

I agree now that this is a perilous option, and that its use case may
be so narrow that it may not worth adding. I am indeed already using a
custom script, and maybe I should leave it at that.

j.