Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/7] Rework git core for native submodules

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 7, 2013, 21:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0=Q-P-fGLmkoiV3_CJ43MNmFzpfkvFjNUwxB+zOsqTxmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20130407212342.GA19857@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> What's stopping the core object code of git parsing .gitmodules?

Nothing, except that it's perversely unnatural for object parsing code to parse something outside the object store.

> What
> is the core object code?

parse_link_buffer(): the conventions have already been set by parse_blob_buffer(), parse_tree_buffer() etc.

> How does this compare to other metadata
> files like .gitattributes and .gitignore?

.gitignore and .gitattributes are parsed in dir.c, where git "treats" worktree paths. It's quite nicely integrated.

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