From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:32:10 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] git-submodule.sh: Add Custom argument input support to git submodule recurse subcommand Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Sun, 18 May 2008, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Junio C Hamano > 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?