From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 22:13:33 GMT
Subject: Re: git-diff-tree does not use alternate objects for submodules
Message-ID: <20120513221333.GB59647@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120513172301.GA58961@book.hvoigt.net>

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:23:25PM +0200, Heiko Voigt wrote:
> Here is the simplest approach I could think of (not sure if its maybe
> too simple). On first sight it seems to work (even if I exchange the
> absolute path in alternates with a relative one.
> 
> Please see below.
> 
> Cheers Heiko
> 
> I used the following setup to test:
> 
> mkdir sub_alt &&
> (cd sub_alt &&
> git init &&
> echo a >a &&
> git add a &&
> git commit -m a) &&
> mkdir super &&
> (cd super &&
> git clone -s ../sub_alt sub &&
> git init &&
> git add sub &&
> git commit -m "sub a") &&
> (cd sub_alt &&
> echo b >b &&
> git add b &&
> git commit -m b) &&
> (cd super &&
> 	(cd sub &&
> 	 git fetch &&
> 	 git checkout origin/master) &&
>  git diff --submodule
> )

Junio in case you decide to queue this: I would like to rework the above
code into a proper testcase and add that to the patch. The previous
patch is the state as far as I got today so interested people can test
whether it fixes their issue.

Cheers Heiko