Re: [RFCv4 PATCH 00/14] Checkout aware of Submodules!

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2017, 22:56 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kYQf2SL-RVETv8=6NaZHhub2kQmKevK32X_xfFkr_0yyA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xpWqiWeMOMauYgtVaiUngd73_dUqRxyWcp0QPHvgOe+vg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>>
>>> Integrate updating the submodules into git checkout,...
>>
>> It was more or less a pleasant read, once I decided to pretend that
>> I were a machine who uses identifiers only to identify locations in
>> the program ;-) IOW, for human consumption, the new names introduced
>> were sometimes quite confusing and went against helping understanding.
>>
>
> Based on my cursory reading, I agree. I had trouble understanding how
> the process worked because the names were somewhat confusing. They
> started to make some sense as I read more. I think v4 had better names
> than v3, but they were still somewhat confusing to me.
>

Now if only you could tell me what names were better to understand. ;) I'll reply to the individual patch remarks and hopefully there we find good names for these functions.

Thanks, Stefan