Re: [PATCH v6 09/10] submodule: support reading .gitmodules when it's not in the working tree

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> writes:
>
>> Finally, add t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh to verify that reading
>> from .gitmodules succeeds and that writing to it fails when the file is
>> not checked out.
>> ...
>>  t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> This now triggers test-lint errors as the most recent maintenance
> release took t/t7416 for something else.  I'll do s/t7416-/t7418-/g
> on the mailbox before running "git am -s" on this series.

This is an unrelated tangent to the topic, but running "range-diff"
on what has been queued on 'pu' since mid September and this
replacement after doing the renaming was a surprisingly pleasant
experience.  In its comparison between 09/10 of the two iterations,
it showed that 7416's name has been changed to 7418 but otherwise
there is no change in the contents of that test script.

FWIW, tbdiff also gets this right, so the pleasant experience was
inherited without getting broken.  Kudos should go to both Thomas
and Dscho ;-).