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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: gitster@pobox.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, jonathantanmy@google.com,
	christian.couder@gmail.com, pc44800@gmail.com,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path'
Date: Wed,  2 May 2018 17:53:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180503005358.89082-3-sbeller@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180503005358.89082-1-sbeller@google.com>

From: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>

As using a variable '$path' may be harmful to users due to
capitalization issues, see 64394e3ae9 (git-submodule.sh: Don't
use $path variable in eval_gettext string, 2012-04-17). Adjust
the documentation to advocate for using $sm_path,  which contains
the same value. We still make the 'path' variable available and
document it as a deprecated synonym of 'sm_path'.

Discussed-with: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 71c5618e82a..755ed695f08 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -183,12 +183,14 @@ information too.
 
 foreach [--recursive] <command>::
 	Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
-	The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
+	The command has access to the variables $name, $sm_path, $sha1 and
 	$toplevel:
 	$name is the name of the relevant submodule section in `.gitmodules`,
-	$path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the
-	superproject, $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject,
-	and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject.
+	$sm_path is the path of the submodule as recorded in the superproject,
+	$sha1 is the commit as recorded in the superproject, and
+	$toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level of the superproject.
+	Note that to avoid conflicts with '$PATH' on Windows, the '$path'
+	variable is now a deprecated synonym of '$sm_path' variable.
 	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.
-- 
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-03  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-03  0:53 [PATCH 0/5] Rebooting pc/submodule-helper-foreach Stefan Beller
2018-05-03  0:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] submodule foreach: correct '$path' in nested submodules from a subdirectory Stefan Beller
2018-05-03 13:29   ` Ramsay Jones
2018-05-03 17:47   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-05-03 18:12     ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-04 21:03       ` Jonathan Tan
2018-05-03  0:53 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2018-05-03 17:50   ` [PATCH 2/5] submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path' Jonathan Tan
2018-05-03  0:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] submodule foreach: clarify the '$toplevel' variable documentation Stefan Beller
2018-05-03 17:51   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-05-03  0:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] submodule foreach: document variable '$displaypath' Stefan Beller
2018-05-03  0:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'foreach' from shell to C Stefan Beller
2018-05-03  1:06   ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-03 18:05   ` Jonathan Tan
2018-05-09  0:29 ` [PATCHv2 0/4] Rebooting pc/submodule-helper-foreach Stefan Beller
2018-05-09  0:29   ` [PATCH 1/4] submodule foreach: correct '$path' in nested submodules from a subdirectory Stefan Beller
2018-05-09  0:29   ` [PATCH 2/4] submodule foreach: document '$sm_path' instead of '$path' Stefan Beller
2018-05-09  0:29   ` [PATCH 3/4] submodule foreach: document variable '$displaypath' Stefan Beller
2018-05-09  0:29   ` [PATCH 4/4] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'foreach' from shell to C Stefan Beller
2018-05-10  6:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-10 21:25       ` [PATCH] " Stefan Beller
2018-05-09 17:13   ` [PATCHv2 0/4] Rebooting pc/submodule-helper-foreach Jonathan Tan

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