Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] git-submodule.sh: Add Custom argument input support to git submodule recurse subcommand
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- May 18, 2008, 15:32 UTC
- Message-ID
- <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805181627320.30431@racer>
- In-Reply-To
- <bd6139dc0805180636o4c5141c5vee559290832a4f03@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
Show 13 quoted lines
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> > wrote: > > > If we want a useful and flexible "recurse", perhaps the only thing we > > need to do is a command that lists a submodule directory path, one > > path at a time, in optionally different traversal order and depth > > cutoff, so that the user can feed it to xargs and do whatever they > > want to run in there. > > How about Windows? Do we want to depend on something like > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/findutils.htm or does msysgit > ship with xargs? (Or do we not intend to build internal commands upon > this system and leave using the output of "recurse" to the user?)
git-repack already relies on "find", and if you have no silly naming scheme *1*, you do not need "xargs". Besides, we do ship xargs.exe.
Ciao, Dscho
*1* Oops, this is Windows, right?