From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Cc: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>,
Karsten Blees <karsten.blees@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] implement submodule config API for lookup of .gitmodules values
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 08:49:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa8v012ia.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150713111725.GB27160@book.hvoigt.net> (Heiko Voigt's message of "Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:17:25 +0200")
Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:00:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:
>>
>> > The git-submodule script doesn't need this and is fine using plain old
>> > "git config", as by the time it is run the .gitmodules file is already
>> > updated in the work tree. Heiko's series is about adding infrastructure
>> > to allow builtins like checkout and friends to access the configuration
>> > values from the .gitmodules file of the to-be-checked-out commit when
>> > run with "--recurse-submodules". And yes, if we want to expose this
>> > functionality to users or scripts some day "git config" looks like the
>> > best place to do that to me too.
>>
>> Did you mean "git submodule config"?
>
> I think he actually meant "git config" and that is already implemented.
> When I implemented the infrastructure to read configurations from blobs,
> Peff extended it so it will be exposed via the config command line. E.g.
> you can do:
>
> git config --blob HEAD^^^:.gitmodules <value>
>
> to get .gitmodules configurations from the history, so that is already
> implemented. And for reading .gitmodules values we probably do not need
> more,...
Ah, I see. Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-13 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 21:06 [PATCH v5 0/4] submodule config lookup API Heiko Voigt
2015-06-15 21:06 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] implement submodule config API for lookup of .gitmodules values Heiko Voigt
2015-06-16 10:54 ` Heiko Voigt
2015-07-08 20:52 ` Phil Hord
2015-07-09 12:09 ` Heiko Voigt
2015-07-09 15:49 ` Jeff King
2015-07-09 19:41 ` Jens Lehmann
2015-07-09 20:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-07-13 11:17 ` Heiko Voigt
2015-07-13 15:49 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-06-15 21:06 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] extract functions for submodule config set and lookup Heiko Voigt
2015-06-15 21:06 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] use new config API for worktree configurations of submodules Heiko Voigt
2015-06-15 21:06 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] do not die on error of parsing fetchrecursesubmodules option Heiko Voigt
2015-06-15 21:48 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] submodule config lookup API Junio C Hamano
2015-08-10 19:23 ` Stefan Beller
2015-08-12 17:53 ` Junio C Hamano
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