Re: [PATCH v2 40/43] refs: allow ref backend to be set for clone

> On 09/29/2015 12:02 AM, David Turner wrote:
> > Add a new option, --refs-backend-type, to allow the ref backend type to
> > be set on new clones.
> > 
> > Submodules must use the same ref backend as the parent repository, so
> > we also pass the --refs-backend-type option option when cloning
> > submodules.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twopensource.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/git-clone.txt |  4 ++++
> >  builtin/clone.c             | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  builtin/submodule--helper.c |  5 ++++-
> >  cache.h                     |  1 +
> >  refs.c                      |  2 ++
> >  5 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > [...]
> > diff --git a/builtin/clone.c b/builtin/clone.c
> > index 3e14491..d489a87 100644
> > --- a/builtin/clone.c
> > +++ b/builtin/clone.c
> > [...]
> > @@ -744,6 +762,11 @@ static void write_config(struct string_list *config)
> >  					       write_one_config, NULL) < 0)
> >  			die("unable to write parameters to config file");
> >  	}
> > +
> > +	if (refs_backend_type &&
> > +	    write_one_config("core.refs-backend-type",
> > +			     refs_backend_type, NULL) < 0)
> > +			die("unable to write backend parameter to config file");
> >  }
> 
> Our config variable names don't use separated-with-hyphens but rather
> wordsruntogether (though in documentation this would be written
> core.refsBackendType, because the actual names are case-insensitive).