From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 08:39:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules
Message-ID: <8c5c35580706020139k3beae8bbj3f51eee0ff5fd30c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070602074410.GA955MdfPADPa@greensroom.kotnet.org>

On 6/2/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> > Then Sven suggested to create a submodule section for the url, which would
> > allow
> >
> >  $ name=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git-config path."$path".submodule)
> >  $ url=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git-config submodule."$name".url)
> >
> >
> > But I don't see an easy way to do the mapping from path to url/submodule
> > with:
> >
> > [submodule "xyzzylib"]
> >  path=lib
> >  url=git://xyzzy/lib-1.2.3
> >
> > Suggestions?
>
> I'm not a shell programmer,

Me neither ;-)

>but it could look something like this
>
>     $ name=$(git config --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.path' | while read module modulepath; do if test "$modulepath" = "$path"; then echo $module | sed -e 's/^submodule.//' -e 's/.path//'; fi; done)
>

Ahh, --get-regexp, thanks.

Then this actually works:

name=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git-config --get-regexp
'submodule\..*\.path' 'lib' | sed -e 's/^submodule\.\(.*\)\.path
lib$/\1/')


But why would we want to design .gitmodules in a way that makes it
hard to do the mapping from path to url?

-- 
larsh