Re: [PATCH 0/2] Submodule merging: i18n, verbosity

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

Hi Elijah,

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 2:19 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>> Leif wrote:
>>> Sure, let me know what to use instead and I’ll update and resubmit the patch.
>>> Sure, but `MERGE_WARNING` prefixes all the messages with "Failed to
>>> merge submodule“.
>>
>> I thought about replying and coming up with good reasons, but I wrote some
>> patches instead.
>>
>> They can also be found at https://github.com/stefanbeller/git/tree/submodule_i18n_verbose
>>
>> I think these would be a good foundation for your patch as well, as you can use the
>> output() function for the desired cases.
>>
>> Feel free to take these patches as part of your series or adapt
>> (or be inspired by) as needed.
>
> This is awesome.  In addition to the good reasons you gave, switching
> merge_submodule() to use output() was one of several things on my todo
> list since I think it'd be needed for remerge-diffs
> (https://bugs.chromium.org/p/git/issues/detail?id=12) and might be
> useful for merges in bare repos; thanks for tackling it.

Thanks for the encouraging words!
The one nit I find on that series is that we need to rely on and export
the add_submodule_odb function as I want to get rid of that function
once the object store series has progressed far enough.

>
> Patches look good to me.  Having Leif's patch on top of these two
> would be great.

ok, Let's go with that.

Stefan