From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 22:40:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ls-files: adding support for submodules
Message-ID: <xmqqsht88zov.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160909223513.3rirneqxmrcyi4k4@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> So I suppose another option would be to teach ls-files a "prefix" option
> to add to each filename, and just pass in the submodule path. Then you
> can let the sub-processes write directly to the common stdout, and I
> think it would be safe to blindly pass the parent argv into the child
> processes.

I think that is a sensible way to do this, instead of reading from -z
and showing things depending on various output modes you were told
to use.