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Is there a way to chain cmds to submodules within your repo? I am looking for built-in methods as I need this to be portable and without secondary installations.

In my case, I have a workflow pipeline that is based on ls-files (and log) and need to be able to see files that match certain conditions, even if they are in submodules.

i.e. 

git ls-files some/file/path/above/my/submodules/globed-file

Only shows files within the current repo and ignores the submodule's files.

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June 2015: You can try to execute your command in each submodules, using git submodule foreach:

git submodule --quiet --recursive foreach "git ls-files yourFile"

One of the submodule will return something, if that file is present in it.

Note that with Git 2.11+ (Q4 2016), you can use instead:

git ls-files --recurse-submodules

See "finding a list of files (e.g. using git ls-files) including submodules".

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  • Thanks, I've used foreach on the submodule option, it of course does not include the process on the git repo files containing those submodules. This is the only answer I could could come up with also, I'll just have to run multiple cmds and place the union of those results on the bash pipeline. – SushiHangover Jun 30 '15 at 21:51