Re: Submodule regression in 2.14?

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2017, 16:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbYWyAkxbRv8vw9woR_KSSNRgjWhjkU3wwAGZfpFakhwA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170825091048.GB14872@book.hvoigt.net>

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 2:10 AM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 11:10:52AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:33 AM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 09:42:54AM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 11:51:13PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> >>     # You feel the superproject is in the way?
>> >>     git worktree add --for-submodule <path/to/sub> ...
>> >>     # The new submodule worktree puts the
>> >>     # submodule only UX first. so it feels like its own
>> >>     # repository, no need for specific flags.
>> >
>> > I am not sure I understand this one. What would that do? Put a worktree
>> > for submodule path/to/sub to ...?
>>
>> Yes, and at "..." you would have the UX of the submodule being
>> its own repository, no interaction with the superproject.
>
> Are you sure that is what Junio meant?

I am not sure at all, what Junio thought about this.

> IMO that would be 'git worktree
> clone' or 'git worktree checkout', no?  In todays git terminology an
> 'add' is something that puts data into the repository / the index. That
> is why I was/am confused.

I went with current gits:
$ git worktree
usage: git worktree add [<options>] <path> [<branch>]
   or: git worktree list [<options>]
   or: git worktree lock [<options>] <path>
   or: git worktree prune [<options>]
   or: git worktree unlock <path>

where the 'add' adds a new worktree (my mental emphasis was on the option that says: "Make the new worktree for the submodule, such that in that worktree the submodule feels like the toplevel repository". If 'add' is a bad naming choice, we may want to discuss&deprecate it in a new thread as that is related to the worktree area?)

Thanks, Stefan

>
> Cheers Heiko