Re: [PATCH] submodule: fix NULL correctness in renamed broken submodules

[Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday 14 June 2018 11:01 PM, Stefan Beller wrote:
> While at it, make sure we only attempt to load the submodule if a git
> directory of the submodule is found as default_name_or_path will return
> NULL in case the git directory cannot be found.

I found this a little hard to read. Maybe it could be sentence could be
shrinked a little. Possibly,

    While at it, make sure we only attempt to load the submodule if
    a git directory of the submodule is found.

I guess the other part of the sentence doesn't make much sense in the
log message. Maybe it could be an in-code comment. Speaking of in-code
comment, the following would also fit there, wouldn't it?

> Note that passing NULL
> to submodule_from_name is just a semantic error, as submodule_from_name
> accepts NULL as a value, but then the return value is not the submodule
> that was asked for, but some arbitrary other submodule. (Cf. 'config_from'
> in submodule-config.c: "If any parameter except the cache is a NULL
> pointer just return the first submodule. Can be used to check whether
> there are any submodules parsed.")
> 


-- 
Sivaraam

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Sivaraam?

You possibly might have noticed that my signature recently changed from
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common name (NOTE: it's not a common spelling, just a common name). So,
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That said, I won't mind you calling me 'Kaartic' if you like it [of
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