Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2016, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvaxfhdft.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1475099443-145608-3-git-send-email-bmwill@google.com>

Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> writes:

> +--recurse-submodules::
> +	Recursively calls ls-files on each submodule in the repository.
> +	Currently there is only support for the --cached mode.

Good to describe it, but at this step, there is only support for the "--cached" mode and it does not take a pathspec.

Also as the series progresses, I would expect this to be updated in patches $n/4 (2 < $n).

> +	if (recurse_submodules && argc)
> +		die("ls-files --recurse-submodules does not support path "
> +		    "arguments");

Hmm, s/path arguments/pathspec/, perhaps, as the latter is specified in the glossary?

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