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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:35:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaLXcTeeM9AKvXi7X8WMd+vcyCM5n-Nz2igHkGJdXbSfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180814180406.GA86804@google.com>

> > > -           echo "gitdir: ../../../.git/modules/sub3/modules/dirdir/subsub" >./sub3/dirdir/subsub/.git_expect
> > > +           echo "gitdir: ../../../.git/modules/sub3/modules/dirdir%2fsubsub" >./sub3/dirdir/subsub/.git_expect
> >
> > One interesting thing about url-encoding is that it's not one-to-one.
> > This case could also be %2F, which is a different file (on a
> > case-sensitive filesystem). I think "%20" and "+" are similarly
> > interchangeable.
> >
> > If we were decoding the filenames, that's fine. The round-trip is
> > lossless.
> >
> > But that's not quite how the new code behaves. We encode the input and
> > then check to see if it matches an encoding we previously performed. So
> > if our urlencode routines ever change, this will subtly break.

And this is the problem:
a) we have a 'complicated' encoding here, which must never change
b) the "encode and check if it matches", will produce ugly code going forward,
    as it tries to differentiate between submodules named "url_encoded(a)"
    and "a" (e.g. "a%20b" and "a b" would conflict and we have to resolve
    the conflict, although those two names are perfectly fine as they do not
    have the original problem of having slashes)

Hence I would propose a simpler encoding:

1)    / -> _ ( replace a slash by an underscore)
2)    _ -> __ (replace any underscore by 2 underscores, this is just the
          escaping mechanism to differentiate a/b and a_b)

3) (optional) instead of putting it all in modules/, use another
directory gitmodules/
    for example. this will make sure we can tell if a repository has
been converted
    or is stuck with a setup of a current git.

> This is exactly the reason why I wanted to get some opinions on what the
> best thing to do here would be.  I _think_ the best thing would probably
> be to write a specific routine to do the conversion, and it wouldn't
> even have to be all that complex.  Basically I'm just interested in
> converting '/' characters so that things no longer behave like
> nested directories.

Yeah, then let's just convert '/' with as little overhead as possible.

Thanks,
Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-28 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 23:06 [RFC] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Brandon Williams
2018-08-07 23:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-08  0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 22:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] munge submodule names Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: create helper to build paths to submodule gitdirs Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 23:21     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-09  0:45       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-10 21:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-10 21:45       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Brandon Williams
2018-08-09 21:26     ` Jeff King
2018-08-14 18:04       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-14 18:57         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 21:08           ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-14 21:12             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 22:34               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:34                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16  2:39                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:47                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16 17:34                       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-16 18:19                       ` [PATCH] submodule: add config for where gitdirs are located Brandon Williams
2018-08-20 22:03                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-16 15:07                   ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Junio C Hamano
2018-08-14 18:58         ` Jeff King
2018-08-28 21:35         ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2018-08-29  5:25           ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 18:10             ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:03               ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:10                 ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:18                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:27                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:30                   ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:09             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:14               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:25                 ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-29 21:32               ` Jeff King
2018-08-16  0:19     ` Aaron Schrab
2019-01-15  1:25 ` [RFC] " Jonathan Nieder
2019-01-17 17:32   ` Jeff King
2019-01-17 17:57     ` Stefan Beller

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