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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
	Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] change submodule push test to use proper repository setup
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:41:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaqAi2-2KfQqqW1TvBvmHb_13gjZSycY2GsVgakLWcxFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7ew2pokm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> So you propose to make git-add behave like "git submodule add"
>> (i.e. also add the .gitmodules entry for name/path/URL), which I
>> like from a submodule perspective.
>>
>> However other users of gitlinks might be confused[1], which is why
>> I refrained from "making every gitlink into a submodule". Specifically
>> the more powerful a submodule operation is (the more fluff adds),
>> the harder it should be for people to mis-use it.
>
> A few questions that come to mind are:
>
>  - Does "git add sub/" have enough information to populate
>    .gitmodules?  If we have reasonable "default" values for
>    .gitmodules entries (e.g. missing URL means we won't fetch when
>    asked to go recursively fetch), perhaps we can leave everything
>    other than "submodule.$name.path" undefined.

I think we would want to populate path and URL only.

>
>  - Can't we help those who have gitlinks without .gitmodules entries
>    exactly the same way as above, i.e. when we see a gitlink and try
>    to treat it as a submodule, we'd first try to look it up from
>    .gitmodules (by going from path to name and then to
>    submodule.$name.$var); the above "'git add sub/' would add an
>    entry for .gitmodules" wish is based on the assumption that there
>    are reasonable "default" values for each of these $var--so by
>    basing on the same assumption, we can "pretend" as if these
>    submodule.$name.$var were in .gitmodules file when we see
>    gitlinks without .gitmodules entries.  IOW, if "git add sub/" can
>    add .gitmodules to help people without having to type "git
>    submodule add sub/", then we can give exactly the same degree of
>    help without even modifying .gitmodules when "git add sub/" is
>    run.

I do not understand the gist of this paragraph, other then:

  "When git-add <repository> encounters a section submodule.<name>.*,
   do not modify it; We can assume it is sane already."

>  - Even if we could solve it with "git add sub/" that adds to
>    .gitmodules, is it a good solution, when we can solve the same
>    thing without having to do so?

I am confused even more.

So you suggest that "git add [--gitlink=submodule]" taking on the
responsibilities of "git submodule add" is a bad idea?

I thought we had the same transition from "git remote update" to
"git fetch", which eventually superseded the former.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-10 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06 22:25 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:30 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] fetch: add test to make sure we stay backwards compatible Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] change submodule push test to use proper repository setup Heiko Voigt
2017-10-09 18:20   ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-10 13:03     ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-10 18:39       ` Stefan Beller
2017-10-10 23:31         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-10 23:41           ` Stefan Beller [this message]
2017-10-11  0:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 14:56           ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-12  0:26             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 14:52         ` Heiko Voigt
2017-10-11 15:10         ` Josh Triplett
2017-10-12 16:17           ` Brandon Williams
2017-10-06 22:34 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:35 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] submodule: simplify decision tree whether to or not to fetch Heiko Voigt
2017-10-06 22:57 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] implement fetching of moved submodules Stefan Beller
2017-10-07  1:24 ` Junio C Hamano

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