Re: My Git Dev Blog - Week 9

From: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2021, 08:57 UTC
Message-ID: <A644ECB8-E272-4EA9-9606-E13A36270C9D@gmail.com>
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On 18-Jul-2021, at 18:45, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 1:59 PM Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Here's my latest blog post:
>> https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week9
> 
> Great!
> 
>> A part that may be interesting to list readers:
>> 
>> - In one section of the blog, I describe the problem of the git
>>  submodule configuration not updating properly, when I launch
>>  a subprocess that first initialises the submodule. I will
>>  appreciate it if someone has a possible explanation for the
>>  issue I faced at:
>>  https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week9#launching-the-init-part-as-a-subprocess
> 
> My wild guess about why is_submodule_active() might not be working as
> expected is that submodule_from_path() uses the submodule cache which
> might not be properly updated when a submodule is initialized by a
> subprocess.

Right, I have made a note of this. It does feel like the most plausible explanation, which I might look into after my update series is done.

>> The rest of the post talks about my project progress so far, and how I
>> avoided the above problem entirely for now by taking a different approach.
> 
> Nice that you found a possible better way!