Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] submodule: pass on http.extraheader config settings

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 28, 2016, 19:53 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqk2jh4iif.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoa8t4il8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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> Users use "git -c" and hope to affect what happens in submodules,
> only because "git submodule" support is still immature and does not
> have options to do that.  You certainly smell a linkage between
> "pass options to a selected subset of submodules" and your recent
> "give labels to submodules so that they can be named with *group
> syntax" topic, no?

By "options to do that", I meant "options to specify 'these configurations are passed down to part of this command that operates on these submodules'".

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