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From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, shouryashukla.oo@gmail.com,
	git@vger.kernel.org, christian.couder@gmail.com,
	kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de,
	liu.denton@gmail.com, pc44800@gmail.com, chriscool@tuxfamily.org,
	stefanbeller@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'add' from shell to C
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:44:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rgprdt1.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201118231331.716110-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>


On Thu, Nov 19 2020, Jonathan Tan wrote:

>> Whew.
>> 
>> This was way too big to be reviewed in a single sitting.  I do not
>> know offhand if there is a better way to structure the changes into
>> a more digestible pieces to help prevent reviewers from overlooking
>> potential mistakes, though.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
> I just took a look at this, and one thing that would have helped is if
> you ported the end of the function first in a commit, and work your way
> backwards (in one or more commits).
>
> After reading through the whole thing, I saw that this is mostly a
> straightforward start-to-finish port (besides factoring out code into
> functions), but it would be much easier for reviewers to conceptualize
> and discuss the different parts if they were already divided.

Having done some minor changes to git-submodule.sh recently, I wondered
if we weren't at the point where it would be a nice approach to invert
the C/sh helper relationship.

I.e. write git-submodule.c, which would be the small entry point, it
would then mostly dispatch to a submodule--helper, which would in turn
mostly dispatch to a new submodule--helper-sh (containing most of the
current git-submodule.sh code), which in turn would re-dispatch to the C
submodule--helper (which as an aside, then sometimes calls itself via
process invocation).

It's quite a bit of spaghetti code, but means that there's a straighter
path to porting some of the setup code such as the "--check-writeable",
is_absolute_path() etc. being changed at the start of the change here to
git-submodule.sh.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-07  7:45 [PATCH v2 0/3] submodule: port subcommand add from shell to C Shourya Shukla
2020-10-07  7:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] dir: change the scope of function 'directory_exists_in_index()' Shourya Shukla
2020-10-07 18:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-12 10:11     ` Shourya Shukla
2020-11-18 23:25   ` Emily Shaffer
2020-10-07  7:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] submodule: port submodule subcommand 'add' from shell to C Shourya Shukla
2020-10-07 18:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-07 22:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-08 17:19   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-09  5:09   ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-18 23:13     ` Jonathan Tan
2020-11-19  7:44       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2020-11-19 12:38         ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-19 20:37           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-07  7:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] t7400: add test to check 'submodule add' for tracked paths Shourya Shukla
2020-11-19  0:03 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] submodule: port subcommand add from shell to C Josh Steadmon

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