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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Cc: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>,
	Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>,
	Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 16:29:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYMA6Me_ZnBZQitW7ZSJ0kfvb-LPnH=1gTwhRN-KOe5pA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56bcf006-06f1-1851-87de-5697f988cb08@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Ramsay Jones
<ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 30/05/17 22:53, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Ramsay Jones
>> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>> On 26/05/17 18:07, Stefan Beller wrote:
>>>> On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Ramsay Jones
>>>> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>
>>> Back in 2012, the submodule list was generated by filtering the
>>> output of 'git ls-files --error-unmatch --stage --'; but I don't
>>> recall if (at that time) git-ls-files required being at the top
>>> of the working tree, or if it would execute fine in a sub-directory.
>>> So, it's possible that the documentation of $path was wrong all along.
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> At that time, by definition, $path == $sm_path. However, you know this
>>> stuff much better than me (I don't use git-submodule), so ...
>>
>> Don't take that stance. Sometimes I shoot quickly from the hip without
>> considering consequences (Figuratively).
>>
>> In a foreach command I can see value both in the 'displaypath'
>> (what sm_path would become here) and the 'submodule path'
>> from the superproject. The naming of 'sm_path' hints at that it ought
>> to be the 'submodule path'.
>
> Well, since I introduced it, I can confidently proclaim that it is
> indeed the 'submodule path'. :-D

ok. :)

> As I said above, I can't remember how git-ls-files worked back then,
> but it seems that I thought of it as the path to the submodule from
> the root of the working tree. Again, by definition, $sm_path == $path
> (as documented). Of course, that may have changed since then.

Documented in 64394e3 (git-submodule.sh: Don't use $path variable in
eval_gettext string, by yourself)

What I intended to say above was "documented to the end user",
and I do not count our commit messages as such. The end user facing
documentation only talks about path, not mentioning sm_path.

>>>> With this patch it becomes less non-sensey and could be documented as:
>>>>
>>>>     $sm_path is the relative path from the current working directory
>>>>     to the submodule (ignoring relations to the superproject or nesting
>>>>     of submodules).
>>>
>>> OK.
>>>
>>>>                      This documentation also fits into the narrative of
>>>>     the test in t7407.
>>>
>>> Hmm, does it?
>>
>> After rereading that test, I would think so?
>
> Really? So, if it differs from $path, then something changed between
> commit 64394e3ae9 and commit 091a6eb0fe. I haven't really read that
> commit/test, so take what I say with a pinch of salt ...

Well yes. I am specifically reading 091a6eb0fe, the changes to t7407.

In that test sm_path contains the relative path from $PWD to the
submodule. (It does NOT: "$[sm_]path is the name of the submodule
directory relative to the superproject" as documented but rather
... relative to the $PWD)

>
>> Thanks for keeping discussing this.
>>
>> So maybe we want to
>> * keep path=sm_path
>
> As I said in commit 64394e3ae9, $path was part of the API, so I could
> not just rename it, without a deprecation period, etc ... So, I was
> 'crossing my fingers' that nobody would export $path in their user
> scripts (not very likely, after all).

Ok. So another approach to get away in the C conversion:
* export the sm_path as all other environment variables
* for "$path" we do not export it into the environment, but
  prefix the command with it, i.e. we'd ask our shell to run
  "path=%s; %s", sm_path, argv[0]
  to preserve the historic behavior.

>
>> * fix the documentation via s/$path/$sm_path/g in that section quoted above.
>
> So, "$path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the
> superproject", as currently documented in the man page, yes?

No, the documentation does not match reality. The reality is that
both sm_path as well as path give the display path.

> So, $sm_path == $path, at least for some period?

yes that is current reality.

>
>> * Introduce a new variable sm_display_path that contains what this patch
>>   proposes sm_path to be.
>
> So, this would be the path from the cwd to the submodule, yes?

yes.

>
> I don't know how windows folks will feel about simply
> removing $path, ...

I agree that this is a bad idea now. As said above we'd
just not export the path as an env variable and should be
"fine" in the sense that we do not break historical expectations,
but have to deal with slightly messy code.

Just digging further, there was ea2fa1040d (submodule foreach:
correct path display in recursive submodules, 2016-03-29), which
is tangent to the issue of whether we think it is a display path
or the superproject->submodule path.

Thanks,
Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-30 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-19 17:05 [GSoC][RFC/PATCH] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-19 18:08 ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-22 19:58   ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-04-24  2:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 20:03     ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:11       ` Ramsay Jones
2017-04-24 22:17         ` Stefan Beller
2017-04-24 22:43           ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-12 11:44             ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-12 11:44               ` [GSoC][RFC/PATCH v3 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-15 17:22                 ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-15 18:34                 ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-21 12:58                   ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-21 12:58                     ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-22 20:04                       ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 19:09                         ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 19:36                       ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-23 20:57                         ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-23 21:05                           ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17                       ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 15:17                         ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 2/3] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:19                           ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:33                           ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 15:17                         ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 3/3] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-26 16:14                           ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-26 16:44                           ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-26 21:54                           ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 22:03                             ` Brandon Williams
2017-05-27  1:20                             ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 14:06                               ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-27 21:24                                 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-05-26 16:31                         ` [GSoC][PATCH v5 1/3] submodule: fix buggy $path and $sm_path variable's value Ramsay Jones
2017-05-26 17:07                           ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-27  1:10                             ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 21:53                               ` Stefan Beller
2017-05-30 23:07                                 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-30 23:29                                   ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-05-31  0:13                                     ` Ramsay Jones
2017-05-31  0:48                                       ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-02 11:24                                         ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 1/2] " Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-02 11:24                                           ` [GSoC][PATCH v6 2/2] submodule: port subcommand foreach from shell to C Prathamesh Chavan
2017-06-03  2:13                                             ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-04 10:32                                               ` Prathamesh Chavan
2017-05-23 19:06                     ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added Brandon Williams
2017-06-03  0:37                   ` [PATCH] submodule foreach: correct $sm_path in nested submodules from a dir Stefan Beller
2017-06-03 14:07                     ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-04 15:05                       ` Ramsay Jones
2017-06-05 22:20                     ` Jonathan Nieder

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