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From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ls-files: respect 'submodule.recurse' config
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 09:05:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EB4E9E-1819-41D6-839E-A3812456478C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqv9gms1fp.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Hi Junio,

> Le 10 sept. 2020 à 00:25, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> a écrit :
> 
> "Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
>> 
>> `git ls-files` learned to recurse into submodules when given
>> '--recurse-submodules' back in e77aa336f1 (ls-files: optionally recurse
>> into submodules, 2016-10-07) but it does not respect the
>> 'submodule.recurse' config option which was later introduced in
>> 046b48239e (Introduce 'submodule.recurse' option for worktree
>> manipulators, 2017-05-31).
>> 
>> Add a 'git_ls_files_config' function to read this configuration
>> variable, and adjust the documentation and tests accordingly.
> 
> I am afraid that this will break existing scripts big time, and I
> would not be surprised if 046b48239e refrained to do the equivalent
> of this patch very much on purpose to avoid such a regression.

As I read it, 046b48239e was just the introduction of the config and
it's implementation for read-tree/checkout/reset, and the other commands
with '--recurse-submodules' would come later (as was done in the following 
commits in branch 'sb/submodule-blanket-recursive').

Also, in gitsubmodules(7) [1], 'ls-files' is used as if it respects 'submodule.recurse',
so I think that was Stefan's original plan. (It's been that way since the introduction
of that man page in d48034551a).

> Anybody who writes a script using ls-files _without_ passing the
> --recurse-submodules option expects that the ls-files command will
> stop at submodule boundary without recursing, that the script can
> notice and pick up mode 160000 entries in the output from ls-files,
> and that the script can decide if it wants to descend into
> submodules it discovered that way.
> 
> It is easy to imagine that such a script will break badly when run
> by a user who has the configuration variable set, I would think.

I understand, but I would argue that such a user could easily adapt their
script to add '--no-recurse-submodules' to their ls-files invocation if that 
is the case, no ?

> So, no.  I am not enthused to see this change.

OK, if I'm not able to change your mind, what would you think of a separate
config variable then, say `ls-files.recurseSubmodules` ? This would be more granular,
so less chance of breaking existing scripts, but still provide for a way to configure 
Git to always recurse in submodules, including for 'ls-files'...

Thanks,
Philippe.


[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitsubmodules#_workflow_for_an_artificially_split_repo


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-10  3:07 [PATCH] ls-files: respect 'submodule.recurse' config Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2020-09-10  4:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-10  4:50   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-11 13:11     ` Philippe Blain
2020-09-11 14:30     ` Philippe Blain
2020-09-11 13:05   ` Philippe Blain [this message]
2020-09-11 19:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-13 10:47     ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-09-13 10:51       ` Đoàn Trần Công Danh
2020-09-11 13:48   ` Philippe Blain

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