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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 01:25:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180829052519.GA17253@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaLXcTeeM9AKvXi7X8WMd+vcyCM5n-Nz2igHkGJdXbSfg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 02:35:25PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

> 3) (optional) instead of putting it all in modules/, use another
>    directory gitmodules/ for example. this will make sure we can tell
>    if a repository has been converted or is stuck with a setup of a
>    current git.

I actually kind of like that idea, as it makes the interaction between
old and new names much simpler to reason about.

And since old code won't know about the new names anyway, there's in
theory no downside. In practice, of course, the encoding may often be a
noop, and lazy scripts would continue to work most of the time if you
didn't change out the prefix directory. I'm not sure if that is an
argument for the scheme (because it will suss out broken scripts more
consistently) or against it (because 99% of the time those old scripts
would just happen to work).

> > This is exactly the reason why I wanted to get some opinions on what the
> > best thing to do here would be.  I _think_ the best thing would probably
> > be to write a specific routine to do the conversion, and it wouldn't
> > even have to be all that complex.  Basically I'm just interested in
> > converting '/' characters so that things no longer behave like
> > nested directories.
> 
> Yeah, then let's just convert '/' with as little overhead as possible.

Do you care about case-folding issues (e.g., submodules "FOO" and "foo"
colliding)?

I'm OK if the answer is "no", but if you do want to deal with it, the
time is probably now.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-29  5:25 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
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 [this message]
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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