From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
"Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"David Turner" <novalis@novalis.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Store submodules in a hash, not a linked list
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 11:27:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cbfdb6e-1aab-d40f-16dc-06d4c57873b8@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170210004033.cgqmovhvoylad5cf@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On 02/10/2017 01:40 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:23:35PM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
>
>>>> So push the submodule attribute down to the `files_ref_store` class
>>>> (but continue to let the `ref_store`s be looked up by submodule).
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I understand all of the ramifications here. It _sounds_ like
>>> pushing this down into the files-backend code would make it harder to
>>> have mixed ref-backends for different submodules. Or is this just
>>> pushing down an implementation detail of the files backend, and future
>>> code is free to have as many different ref_stores as it likes?
>>
>> I don't understand how this would make it harder, aside from the fact
>> that a new backend class might also need a path member and have to
>> maintain its own copy rather than using one that the base class provides.
>
> Probably the answer is "I'm really confused".
>
> But here's how my line of reasoning went:
>
> Right now we have a main ref-store that points to the submodule
> ref-stores. I don't know the current state of it, but in theory those
> could all use different backends.
>
> This seems like it's pushing that submodule linkage down into the
> backend.
>
> But I think from your response that the answer is no, the thing that is
> being pushed down is not the right way for the main ref store and the
> submodules to be linked. In fact, there is no reason at all for the
> main ref store to know or care about submodules. Anybody who wants to
> know about a submodule's refs should ask the hashmap.
That's correct; the main ref store and submodule ref stores know nothing
of each other.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-10 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-09 13:26 [PATCH 0/5] Store submodules in a hash, not a linked list Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 13:26 ` [PATCH 1/5] refs: store submodule ref stores in a hashmap Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 16:58 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 17:40 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 17:43 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 19:32 ` Jeff King
2017-02-09 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-10 4:04 ` Jeff King
2017-02-10 10:23 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 13:26 ` [PATCH 2/5] refs: push the submodule attribute down Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 17:03 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 21:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH 3/5] register_ref_store(): new function Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 17:20 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 18:14 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 21:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH 4/5] files_ref_store::submodule: use NULL for the main repository Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 17:25 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 21:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-09 21:36 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 13:27 ` [PATCH 5/5] read_loose_refs(): read refs using resolve_ref_recursively() Michael Haggerty
2017-02-09 17:39 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-09 19:48 ` [PATCH 0/5] Store submodules in a hash, not a linked list Junio C Hamano
2017-02-09 19:58 ` Jeff King
2017-02-09 21:23 ` Michael Haggerty
2017-02-10 0:40 ` Jeff King
2017-02-10 10:27 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2017-02-13 2:39 ` Duy Nguyen
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