Re: [RFC PATCH v2 09/12] submodule: support reading .gitmodules even when it's not checked out

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Aug 2, 2018, 20:27 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZABbh6bP1TD8gkx_051yo-=bLJq1XvJz9xUKdBKAPssg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180802134634.10300-10-ao2@ao2.it>

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:47 AM Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> wrote:

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> When the .gitmodules file is not available in the working tree, try
> using HEAD:.gitmodules from the current branch. This covers the case
> when the file is part of the repository but for some reason it is not
> checked out, for example because of a sparse checkout.
>
> This makes it possible to use at least the 'git submodule' commands
> which *read* the gitmodules configuration file without fully populating
> the working tree.

The reading part shows how nice our internal config system is, once everything is put in place.

> Writing to .gitmodules will still require that the file is checked out,
> so check for that before calling config_set_in_gitmodules_file_gently.