Re: [RFC 02/10] submodule: fix getting custom gitmodule file in fetch command

[Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:23:59 -0700
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 9:18 AM, Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Is there an API to just load one config setting?
> 
> Do you mean to
> 
>   git -c key=value foo-command --options ...

I meant, instead of:

  git_config(git_fetch_config, NULL);

which updates a series of config settings, something which loads
_in_the_code_ just the one value for 'core.submodulesFile' previously
set either via "git -c" or "git config".

It turns out what I was looking for is git_config_get_string_const().

The new patch will be simply this:

diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 6ffb1d501..1ef9801d3 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -2087,6 +2087,7 @@ int git_config_get_pathname(const char *key, const char **dest)
  */
 void config_from_gitmodules(config_fn_t fn, void *data)
 {
+       git_config_get_string_const("core.submodulesFile", &submodules_file);
        if (the_repository->worktree) {
                char *file = repo_worktree_path(the_repository, submodules_file);
                git_config_from_file(fn, file, data);


Which covers my use case without changing the fetch behavior for previous
users, as "core.submodulesFile" is a new option.

Thanks,
   Antonio

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