Re: Submodule UX overhaul update (was: What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2022, #07; Mon, 24))

[Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>]

Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:02 PM Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> Finally finding the time to write up another "what's cooking as pertain
>> to overhauling submodules UX" reply.
>>
>> [...]
>> >  Rewrite of "git submodule update" in C.
>> >
>> >  Expecting a reroll?
>> >  cf. <YWiXL+plA7GHfuVv@google.com>
>> >  source: <20211013051805.45662-10-raykar.ath@gmail.com>
>>
>> Sounds like Glen is interested in this series with regard to some edge
>> cases about cloning newly added submodules during a 'git fetch
>> --recurse-submodules'. I'm curious to hear from Atharva about the status
>> of this work :)
>
> Hi!
> I'll preface by saying that I haven't had the time to keep this up to date
> with the other submodule developments.
>
> My recollection was that this series had some small conflicts with
> es/superproject-aware-submodules. The last thing I had done was to
> rebase this on top of es/superproject-aware-submodules [0] and try to
> fix those conflicts. I had not rerolled that branch as a patch series yet,
> because I had thought that superproject-aware-submodules was still
> in flux.
>
> I won't be able to actively work on this in the near future. Feel free to
> pick this up in case this patch is a blocker for yours or Glen's work.
>
> [0] https://github.com/tfidfwastaken/git/commits/submodule-update-on-es-superproject-aware

No worries! It's more like we don't want your good work to go to
waste than a blocker :)

Emily is planning to reroll her series and in all likelihood, I'll
attempt the rebase of ar/submodule-update when that's done.