From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: submodule code prints '(null)'
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 10:35:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kb3_0W7osWbU4tcvGvy0KVQJBpFD7q6njTjWJ7vOEmrtg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180609110414.GA5273@duynguyen.home>
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:04 AM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:31:41PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > I do not know how to reproduce this (and didn't bother to look deeply
> > into it after I found it was not a trivial fix) but one of my "git
> > fetch" showed
> >
> > warning: Submodule in commit be2db96a6c506464525f588da59cade0cedddb5e
> > at path: '(null)' collides with a submodule named the same. Skipping
> > it.
>
> The problem is default_name_or_path() can return NULL when a submodule
> is not populated. The fix could simply be printing path instead of
> name (because we are talking about path in the commit message), like
> below.
>
> But I don't really understand c68f837576 (implement fetching of moved
> submodules - 2017-10-16), the commit that made this change, and not
> sure if we should be reporting name here or path. Heiko?
That change is quite interesting as I did not understand it at first
sight as well.
See https://public-inbox.org/git/20171016135827.GC12756@book.hvoigt.net/
and the follow ups, specifically
https://public-inbox.org/git/20171019181109.27792-2-sbeller@google.com/
that tries to clean up the code, but was ultimately dropped.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-12 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-05 15:31 BUG: submodule code prints '(null)' Duy Nguyen
2018-06-06 18:32 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-06-09 11:04 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-11 22:56 ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-14 15:15 ` Heiko Voigt
2018-06-14 15:44 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-06-14 17:31 ` [PATCH] submodule: fix NULL correctness in renamed broken submodules Stefan Beller
2018-06-14 17:37 ` [PATCH] t5526: test recursive submodules when fetching moved submodules Stefan Beller
2018-06-14 20:23 ` Heiko Voigt
2018-06-14 20:24 ` [PATCH] submodule: fix NULL correctness in renamed broken submodules Heiko Voigt
2018-06-17 14:02 ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2018-06-12 17:35 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
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