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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
	Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:07:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh8jugxk4.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180816023446.GA127655@aiede.svl.corp.google.com> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:34:46 -0700")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> So it would be nice, for future-proofing, if we can change the naming
> scheme later.
> ...
> All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
> want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
> the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
> optimization.
>
> And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
> haven't handled yet today:
>
> - sharding when the number of submodules is too large
> - case-insensitive filesystems
> - path name length limits
> - different sets of filesystem-special characters
>
> Sane?

Yup.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-16 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-07 23:06 [RFC] " Brandon Williams
2018-08-07 23:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-08  0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-08 22:33 ` [PATCH 0/2] munge submodule names Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 1/2] submodule: create helper to build paths to submodule gitdirs Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 23:21     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-09  0:45       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-10 21:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-10 21:45       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-08 22:33   ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Brandon Williams
2018-08-09 21:26     ` Jeff King
2018-08-14 18:04       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-14 18:57         ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 21:08           ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-14 21:12             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-14 22:34               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:34                 ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16  2:39                   ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-16  2:47                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-16 17:34                       ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-16 18:19                       ` [PATCH] submodule: add config for where gitdirs are located Brandon Williams
2018-08-20 22:03                         ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-16 15:07                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-08-14 18:58         ` [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories Jeff King
2018-08-28 21:35         ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29  5:25           ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 18:10             ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:03               ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:10                 ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:18                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:27                     ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:30                   ` Jeff King
2018-08-29 21:09             ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-08-29 21:14               ` Stefan Beller
2018-08-29 21:25                 ` Brandon Williams
2018-08-29 21:32               ` Jeff King
2018-08-16  0:19     ` Aaron Schrab
2019-01-15  1:25 ` [RFC] " Jonathan Nieder
2019-01-17 17:32   ` Jeff King
2019-01-17 17:57     ` Stefan Beller

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