when following the rules for relative URLs - because the evaluation
of relative URLs in Git is identical to that of relative directories).
+
-The default remote is the remote of the remote tracking branch
-of the current branch. If no such remote tracking branch exists or
+The default remote is the remote of the remote-tracking branch
+of the current branch. If no such remote-tracking branch exists or
the HEAD is detached, "origin" is assumed to be the default remote.
If the superproject doesn't have a default remote configured
the superproject is its own authoritative upstream and the current
foreach [--recursive] <command>::
Evaluates an arbitrary shell command in each checked out submodule.
- The command has access to the variables $name, $path, $sha1 and
- $toplevel:
+ The command has access to the variables $name, $sm_path, $displaypath,
+ $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 immediate
+ superproject, $displaypath contains the relative path from the
+ current working directory to the submodules root directory,
+ $sha1 is the commit as recorded in the immediate
+ superproject, and $toplevel is the absolute path to the top-level
+ of the immediate superproject.
+ Note that to avoid conflicts with '$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.