Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/7] git-submodule: Extract functions module_info and module_url
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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- Apr 12, 2008, 04:50 UTC
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"Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
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> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Junio C Hamano <junio@pobox.com> wrote: >> ... >> Same comment applies to cmd_update() and cmd_status(). I would strongly >> suspect that status may want to ignore missing name/url and show the usual >> diff, as it does not even have to require the submodule to interact with >> any remote repository at all. The user may be privately using the >> submodule and does not even need to push it out nor pull it from >> elsewhere, and in such a case, .gitmodules may not even be populated with >> an entry for that submodule, ever, not just as a "right in the middle of >> adding" status. > > This patch just does refactor, i do this in my sixth patch "Don't die > when command fails for one submodule"
Fair enough.
As usual, the preferred order is to first refector, fix without enhancement as necessary, then finally build on more solidified base.