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| author | Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> | 2009-08-19 03:45:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2009-08-18 22:57:37 -0700 |
| commit | 15fc56a853648c60697df691c5cd8a11ad718611 (patch) | |
| tree | c5705bc5373e9d4552788ecb6decc60d279b7aa2 /Documentation/git-submodule.txt | |
| parent | 9aec7e0ba69334cf9bfc6bca6abbea7e84d676b2 (diff) | |
| download | git-15fc56a853648c60697df691c5cd8a11ad718611.tar.gz | |
git submodule foreach: Add --recursive to recurse into nested submodules
In very large and hierarchically structured projects, one may encounter
nested submodules. In these situations, it is valuable to not only operate
on all the submodules in the current repo (which is what is currently done
by 'git submodule foreach'), but also to operate on all submodules at all
levels (i.e. recursing into nested submodules as well).
This patch teaches the new --recursive option to the 'git submodule foreach'
command. The patch also includes documentation and selftests.
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-submodule.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index 97c32fe264..326136a85b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--] [<path>...] 'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--cached] [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...] -'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach <command> +'git submodule' [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command> 'git submodule' [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...] @@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ foreach:: Any submodules defined in the superproject but not checked out are ignored by this command. Unless given --quiet, foreach prints the name of each submodule before evaluating the command. + If --recursive is given, submodules are traversed recursively (i.e. + the given shell command is evaluated in nested submodules as well). A non-zero return from the command in any submodule causes the processing to terminate. This can be overridden by adding '|| :' to the end of the command. @@ -210,6 +212,12 @@ OPTIONS *NOTE*: Do *not* use this option unless you have read the note for linkgit:git-clone[1]'s --reference and --shared options carefully. +--recursive:: + This option is only valid for the foreach command. + Traverse submodules recursively. The operation is performed not + only in the submodules of the current repo, but also + in any nested submodules inside those submodules (and so on). + <path>...:: Paths to submodule(s). When specified this will restrict the command to only operate on the submodules found at the specified paths. |