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[PATCH 3/4] submodule--helper list: lose the extra prefix option

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Mar 24, 2016, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID
<1458862468-12460-4-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<1458862468-12460-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

The usual early machinery of Git is to change the directory to the top level of the working tree and pass the actual path inside the working tree as `prefix` to the command being run. This is the case both for commands written in C (where the prefix is passed into the command in a function parameter) as well as in git-submodule.sh where the setup code runs

  wt_prefix=$(git rev-parse show-prefix)
  cd_to_top_level

So the prefix passed into the `submodule--helper list` is actually the relative path inside the working tree, but we were not using the standard way of passing it through.

Adhere to Gits standard of passing the relative path inside the working tree by passing it via -C.

We do not need to pass it for `submodule foreach` as that command doesn't take further arguments ('$@') to operate on a subset of submodules, such that it is irrelevant for listing the submodules. The computation of the displaypath ('Entering <path>') is done separately there.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
 builtin/submodule--helper.c |  5 +----
 git-submodule.sh            | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index ed764c9..2983783 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -68,14 +68,11 @@ static int module_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	struct module_list list = MODULE_LIST_INIT;
 
 	struct option module_list_options[] = {
-		OPT_STRING(0, "prefix", &prefix,
-			   N_("path"),
-			   N_("alternative anchor for relative paths")),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 
 	const char *const git_submodule_helper_usage[] = {
-		N_("git submodule--helper list [--prefix=<path>] [<path>...]"),
+		N_("git submodule--helper list [<path>...]"),
 		NULL
 	};
 
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 6b18a03..1f7ad6e 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ cmd_foreach()
 	# command in the subshell (and a recursive call to this function)
 	exec 3<&0
 
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix"|
+	git submodule--helper list |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
 		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ cmd_init()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" |
+	git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list "$@" |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
 		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ cmd_deinit()
 		die "$(eval_gettext "Use '.' if you really want to deinitialize all submodules")"
 	fi
 
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" |
+	git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list "$@" |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
 		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ cmd_update()
 	fi
 
 	cloned_modules=
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" | {
+	git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list "$@" | {
 	err=
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ cmd_status()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" |
+	git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list "$@" |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
 		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
@@ -1199,7 +1199,7 @@ cmd_sync()
 		esac
 	done
 	cd_to_toplevel
-	git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" |
+	git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list "$@" |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
 		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
-- 
2.8.0.rc4.10.g52f3f33
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  1. Stefan BellerMar 24, 2016
  2. 1/4 submodule: fix recursive path printing from non root directoryStefan Beller, Mar 24, 2016
  3. Jacob KellerMar 24, 2016
  4. Stefan BellerMar 24, 2016
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  6. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016
  7. 2/4 submodule: fix recursive execution from non root directoryStefan Beller, Mar 24, 2016
  8. Jacob KellerMar 24, 2016
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  10. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016
  11. 3/4 submodule--helper list: lose the extra prefix optionStefan Beller, Mar 24, 2016
  12. Jacob KellerMar 24, 2016
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  16. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016
  17. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  19. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoMar 25, 2016
  21. 4/4 submodule: add more tests for recursive submodule behaviorStefan Beller, Mar 24, 2016
  22. Eric SunshineMar 25, 2016
  23. Stefan BellerMar 25, 2016

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