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From: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: create helper to build paths to submodule gitdirs
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 17:45:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180809004548.GA219777@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kYvM5hxbe9ZCuFt=Cgv9W0mmdwdFGJz6+DdhPv4UbEXjQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/08, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:33 PM Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Introduce a helper function "submodule_name_to_gitdir()" (and the
> > submodule--helper subcommand "gitdir") which constructs a path to a
> > submodule's gitdir, located in the provided repository's "modules"
> > directory.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> >
> > This consolidates the logic needed to build up a path into a
> > repository's "modules" directory, abstracting away the fact that
> > submodule git directories are stored in a repository's common gitdir.
> > This makes it easier to adjust how submodules gitdir are stored in the
> > "modules" directory in a future patch.
> 
> and yet, all places that we touch were and still are broken for old-style
> submodules that have their git directory inside the working tree?
> Do we need to pay attention to those, too?

This series only tries to address the issues with submodules stored in
$GITDIR/modules/ and places in our codebase that explicitly reference
submodules stored there.

For those old-old-style submodules, wouldn't the absorb submodule
functions handle that migration?

> 
> 
> > diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
> > index 8b5ad59bde..053747d290 100755
> > --- a/git-submodule.sh
> > +++ b/git-submodule.sh
> 
> > @@ -577,7 +578,7 @@ cmd_update()
> >                         die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to find current \${remote_name}/\${branch} revision in submodule path '\$sm_path'")"
> >                 fi
> >
> > -               if ! $(git config -f "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/modules/$name/config" core.worktree) 2>/dev/null
> > +               if ! $(git config -f "$(git submodule--helper gitdir "$name")/config" core.worktree) 2>/dev/null
> 
> This will collide with origin/sb/submodule-update-in-c specifically
> 1c866b9831d (submodule--helper: replace connect-gitdir-workingtree
> by ensure-core-worktree, 2018-08-03), but as that removes these lines,
> it should be easy to resolve the conflict.

-- 
Brandon Williams

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 23:06 [RFC] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Brandon Williams
2018-08-07 23:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-08  0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 22:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] munge submodule names Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: create helper to build paths to submodule gitdirs Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 23:21     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-09  0:45       ` Brandon Williams [this message]
2018-08-10 21:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-10 21:45       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Brandon Williams
2018-08-09 21:26     ` Jeff King
2018-08-14 18:04       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-14 18:57         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 21:08           ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-14 21:12             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 22:34               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:34                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16  2:39                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:47                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16 17:34                       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-16 18:19                       ` [PATCH] submodule: add config for where gitdirs are located Brandon Williams
2018-08-20 22:03                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-16 15:07                   ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Junio C Hamano
2018-08-14 18:58         ` Jeff King
2018-08-28 21:35         ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29  5:25           ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 18:10             ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:03               ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:10                 ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:18                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:27                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:30                   ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:09             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:14               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:25                 ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-29 21:32               ` Jeff King
2018-08-16  0:19     ` Aaron Schrab
2019-01-15  1:25 ` [RFC] " Jonathan Nieder
2019-01-17 17:32   ` Jeff King
2019-01-17 17:57     ` Stefan Beller

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