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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, "Brandon Williams" <bmwill@google.com>,
	"Daniel Graña" <dangra@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	"Richard Hartmann" <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] submodule: support reading .gitmodules even when it's not checked out
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 18:45:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYP_ensQR6caaxCwabvcLDdvJNLu2C8DT-jzy+oP7BpJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180514105823.8378-10-ao2@ao2.it>

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> wrote:
> When the .gitmodules file is not available in the working directory, try
> using HEAD:.gitmodules from the index.

I think HEAD:.gitmodules is different than the index (the former is
part of the latest commit, whereas the index could have changed via
git-add, that is not committed yet).

> This covers the case when the
> file is part of the repository but for some reason it is not checked
> out, for example because of a sparse checkout.
>
> This makes it possible to use at least the 'git submodule' commands
> which *read* the gitmodules configuration file without fully populating
> the work dir.

Instead of checking for an explicit sparse "hidden" could we just rely on
the file missing? Then I could continue using submodules if I just
"rm .gitmodules".

>
> Writing to .gitmodules wills still require that the file is checked out,
> so check for that in config_gitmodules_set.

That makes sense!

>
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it>
> ---
>
> I am doing the is_gitmodules_hidden() check in the open for now, I am not sure
> whether it is approprate to do that inside stage_updated_gitmodules.

Why do we need that check at all?

In your use case, you want to checkout *a* .gitmodules file, not necessarily
the .gitmodules file of that repo you're currently working on. So it
sort of makes
sense to prevent cross-repo changes (i.e. committing the .gitmodules
accidentally
into the wrong repo)

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-15  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14 10:58 [RFC PATCH 00/10] Make submodules work if .gitmodules is not checked out Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] config: make config_from_gitmodules generally useful Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 18:19   ` Brandon Williams
2018-06-20 18:04     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:05   ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-20 18:06     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-06-20 19:10       ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-21 13:54         ` Antonio Ospite
2018-06-21 18:53           ` Stefan Beller
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] submodule: factor out a config_gitmodules_set function Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:20   ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-20 18:41     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] t7411: be nicer to other tests and really clean things up Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:23   ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-20 21:16     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] submodule--helper: add a new 'config' subcommand Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:33   ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-20 21:32     ` Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] submodule: use the 'submodule--helper config' command Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] submodule--helper: add a '--stage' option to the 'config' sub command Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] submodule: use 'submodule--helper config --stage' to stage .gitmodules Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] t7506: cleanup .gitmodules properly before setting up new scenario Antonio Ospite
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] submodule: support reading .gitmodules even when it's not checked out Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:45   ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2018-05-14 10:58 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] t7415: add new test about using HEAD:.gitmodules from the index Antonio Ospite
2018-05-15  1:14 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] Make submodules work if .gitmodules is not checked out Stefan Beller
2018-05-15  4:09 ` Junio C Hamano

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