Re: [PATCH] git submodule foreach: Skip eval for more than one argument

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:53:24PM +0100, Johan Herland wrote:

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Matthijs Kooijman [off-list ref] wrote:

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matthijs@grubby:~/test$ git submodule foreach echo '$name'
Entering 'test'
$name

jherland@beta ~/test$ echo '$name'
$name

What would you expect echo '$name' to do?

If I run git submodule foreach each '$name', then my shell eats the
single quotes (which are only to prevent my shell from interpreting
$name). git submodule will see $name, so it will run echo $name, not
echo '$name'.

What happens if you use double instead of single quotes?

Then my shell eats up the double quotes _and_ replaces $name with
nothing, so I can't expect git submodule to replace it with the
submodule name then :-)

Does that help to clarify what I mean?

Gr.

Matthijs