Re: making use of $sm_path @ git submodule foreach —recursive

> On 28.11.2022, at 13:43, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Nov 27 2022, signal@dynax.at wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> when using 
>> git submodule foreach —recursive [..] 
>> $sm_path contains only the relative part of the latest
>> recursion. Since the command has no generic way of knowing from which
>> recursion level it is executed any $sm_path of deeper recursion level
>> is useless unless there is a way for the command to find out from
>> which recursion it is called.
>> 
>> I suggest $sm_path should be extended to be relative to the repo from where the submodule recursion started or another variable should contain the recursive part.
>> 
>> Viele Grüße/Cheers,
>> Hagen.
> 
> I think it might be sensible to have a $super_prefix_sm_path or
> something which does what you suggest here.
> 
> But the current "$sm_path" is far from useless, it's just not useful for
> what you're trying to do.
> 
> When we run a command in sub1/sub2 or whatever the "$sm_path" will be
> "sub1", then as we cd to "sub1" it'll be "sub2".
> 
> You want "sub1/sub2" there, but a "sub2" is still useful, because we've
> chdir()'d to the "sub1" at that point.
> 
> So you can e.g. run 'git -C "$sm_path" log' in your 'foreach', or
> another command that expects to get the *relative* submodule path.
> 
> If we simply changed how "$sm_path" works that would break, and if we
> "fixed" that by not chdir()-ing from the super-project we'd break even
> more things, as e.g.:
> 
> 	git submodule foreach 'git pull'
> 
> Or whatever wouldn't behave as you'd expect.