On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> wrote: >> This introduces a new helper function in git submodule--helper >> which takes care of cloning all submodules, which we want to >> parallelize eventually. >> >> Some tests (such as empty URL, update_mode=none) are required in the >> helper to make the decision for cloning. These checks have been >> moved into the C function as well (no need to repeat them in the >> shell script). >> >> As we can only access the stderr channel from within the parallel >> processing engine, we need to reroute the error message for >> specified but initialized submodules to stderr. As it is an error >> message, this should have gone to stderr in the first place, so it >> is a bug fix along the way. >> > > I was recently working on a way to make submodule pass some parameters > from the parent project into the submodule project (specifically > settings regarding authentication such as using an authentication > helper), and I think this would make it easier to do.
Do you mean the separate bug fix patch as proposed by Jonathan or this patch in general helps your idea of passing settings? Thanks, Stefan > > Thanks, > Jake -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
