Re: [PATCH] ls-files: support --recurse-submodules --stage

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> On Mon, Feb 21 2022, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I think what this is trying to make sure is that it (1) enabled the
> > combination and (2) uses the object store of the submodule when
> > disambiguating names of the objects from the submodule, because the
> > author suspects that the reason why these two options were made
> > incompatible in the first place was because long time ago there
> > wasn't a way to ask "here is an object name---please uniquify in the
> > context of _that_ repository".  So it is understandable to prepare
> > an object X in a submodule and another object Y in the superproject,
> > such that the abbreviated name of X in the context of the submodule
> > is different from the abbreviated name of X in the context of the
> > superproject (i.e. if X were in the superproject's object store,
> > because the object names of X and Y share the prefix, it may require
> > longer prefix to disambiguate from Y), and make sure that the uniquify
> > is indeed happening in the context of the submodule.
> >
> > So, you are only concentrating on (1) but forgetting why the author
> > wants (2).
> 
> Indeed. That makes sense, but it would really help to e.g. have the test
> description make that goal explicit.