Re: [PATCHv2 4/4] submodule: add embed-git-dir function

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
>>> +/*
>>> + * Migrate the given submodule (and all its submodules recursively) from
>>> + * having its git directory within the working tree to the git dir nested
>>> + * in its superprojects git dir under modules/.
>>> + */
>>> +void migrate_submodule_gitdir(const char *prefix, const char *path,
>>> +                             int recursive)
>>
>> Submodules and worktrees seem to have many things in common. The first
>> one is this. "git worktree move" on a worktree that contains
>> submodules .git also benefits from something like this [1]. I suggest
>> you move this function to some neutral place and maybe rename it to
>> relocate_gitdir() or something.
>
> Yeah, good suggestion (including name; first round used "intern" I
> had trouble with, then "embed" which was OK-ish, but probably
> "relocate" is better choice.  If anything, what Stefan's series adds
> is a command to un-embed embedded one).

Heh, good counter perspective. I thought about embedding it
"into the superprojects git directory" whereas your un-embed sounds
like you'd assume embedding is targetd towards the working dir.

relocate as a fancy name for move sounds like it expects 2 arguments
(source and destination), but maybe we could go with:

    git relocate-git-dir (--into-workingtree|--into-gitdir) \
      [--recurse-submodules] \
      [--only-fix-gitfile-links-and-core-setting-as-I-moved-it-myself-already] \
      [--dryrun] [--verbose] [--unsafe-move]

No need to have a pathspec here IMHO. Later it could have another flag
to specify the "main" worktree or such as well.