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Re: [PATCH 6/8] git submodule update: have a dedicated helper for cloning

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Feb 3, 2016, 23:41 UTC
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
>
>> +             if (ce_stage(ce)) {
>> +                     if (pp->recursive_prefix)
>> +                             strbuf_addf(err, "Skipping unmerged submodule %s/%s\n",
>> +                                     pp->recursive_prefix, ce->name);

As a side question: Do we care about proper visual directory separators in Windows?

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>> +                     else
>> +                             strbuf_addf(err, "Skipping unmerged submodule %s\n",
>> +                                     ce->name);
>> +                     continue;
>
> This raised my eyebrow somewhat, until I realized that it is OK
> because module_list prepared by the caller has only one of the
> unmerged entries for the same path to avoid duplicates.
>
>> +             }
>> +
>> +             sub = submodule_from_path(null_sha1, ce->name);
>> +             if (!sub) {
>> +                     strbuf_addf(err, "BUG: internal error managing submodules. "
>> +                                 "The cache could not locate '%s'", ce->name);
>> +                     pp->print_unmatched = 1;
>> +                     continue;
>
> Interesting.
>
> I am wondering if this check should go to module_list_compute().

Actually this has evolved from a debugging leftover camouflaged as a useful thing. I added that and then realized I did not add

        gitmodules_config();
        git_config(git_submodule_config, NULL);
before, but that code remained there as it seemed useful to me at the time.

I never run into this BUG after having proper initialization, so maybe it's not worth carrying this code around. (We have many other places where submodule_from_{path, name} is used unchecked, so why would this place be special?)

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>
>> +             }
>> +
>> +             if (pp->recursive_prefix)
>> +                     displaypath = relative_path(pp->recursive_prefix, ce->name, &sb);
>> +             else
>> +                     displaypath = ce->name;
>> +
>> +             if (pp->update)
>> +                     update_module = pp->update;
>> +             if (!update_module)
>> +                     update_module = sub->update;
>> +             if (!update_module)
>> +                     update_module = "checkout";
>> +             if (!strcmp(update_module, "none")) {
>> +                     strbuf_addf(err, "Skipping submodule '%s'\n", displaypath);
>> +                     continue;
>> +             }
>> +
>> +             /*
>> +              * Looking up the url in .git/config.
>> +              * We must not fall back to .gitmodules as we only want to process
>> +              * configured submodules.
>> +              */
>> +             strbuf_reset(&sb);
>
> Doesn't this invalidate displaypath, when pp->recursive_prefix is in
> effect?  It still seems to be used to create an error message just a
> few lines below...
Yes that is programmer error. Also the final cleanup of the strbuf is missing.
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>
>> +             strbuf_addf(&sb, "submodule.%s.url", sub->name);
>> +             git_config_get_string(sb.buf, &url);
>> +             if (!url) {
>> +                     /*
>> +                      * Only mention uninitialized submodules when its
>> +                      * path have been specified
>> +                      */
>> +                     if (pp->pathspec.nr)
>> +                             strbuf_addf(err, _("Submodule path '%s' not initialized\n"
>> +                                     "Maybe you want to use 'update --init'?"), displaypath);
>> +                     continue;
>> +             }
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 17 of 22 in “[PATCHv7 0/8] Expose submodule parallelism to the user”
  1. Stefan BellerFeb 2, 2016
  2. 1/8 submodule-config: keep update strategy aroundStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  3. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  4. Jeff KingFeb 4, 2016
  5. 2/8 submodule-config: drop check against NULLStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  7. 3/8 submodule-config: remove name_and_item_from_varStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  9. 4/8 submodule-config: introduce parse_generic_submodule_configStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  10. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  11. Stefan BellerFeb 3, 2016
  12. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2016
  13. 5/8 fetching submodules: respect `submodule.fetchJobs` config optionStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  14. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  15. 6/8 git submodule update: have a dedicated helper for cloningStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  16. Junio C HamanoFeb 3, 2016
  17. Stefan BellerFeb 3, 2016
  18. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2016
  19. Stefan BellerFeb 4, 2016
  20. Junio C HamanoFeb 4, 2016
  21. 7/8 submodule update: expose parallelism to the userStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016
  22. 8/8 clone: allow an explicit argument for parallel submodule clonesStefan Beller, Feb 2, 2016

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