From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 02:39:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kamoPjX_yWYABLoyTh8jqAPV4iVX0r46q=41B12zku=tg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180816023446.GA127655@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>

> [...]

all good reasons; ship it :-)

> All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
> want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
> the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
> optimization.

Sounds good, but gerrit for example would not take advantage of such
optimisation as they have slashes in their submodules. :-(
I wonder if we can optimize further and keep slashes if there is
no conflict (as then name == gitdirname, so it can be optimized).

> And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
> haven't handled yet today:
>
> - sharding when the number of submodules is too large
> - case-insensitive filesystems
> - path name length limits
> - different sets of filesystem-special characters
>
> Sane?

I'll keep thinking about it.

FYI: the reduction in configuration was just sent out.

Thanks,
Stefan