Re: [PATCH] submodule: add more exhaustive up-path testing

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> On Tue, Aug 14 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:
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> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:05 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> > <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > So ideally we'd also error out as soon as the host name is touched?
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> >> Do we have some utility function that'll take whatever we have in
> >> remote.<name>.url and spew out the username / host / path? We must,
> >> since the clone protocol needs it, but I haven't found it.
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> > Nope. Welcome to the wonderful world of submodules.
> > As submodules are in the transition state towards "in C",
> > we could do some refactorings that would allow for easy access to
> > these properties, but the transition is done via faithful conversion from
> > shell to C, which did not have these functions either, but could just
> > do some string hackery. And that is how we ended up with this
> > function in the first place.
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> The remote/clone machinery is in C and so is the resolve-relative-url
> helper. What's the missing bridge here?
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> Maybe we don't have that function yet, but we can presumably expose it,
> and this seems unrelated to some other bits of submodules being in
> shellscript.
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> No?