Re: My Git Dev Blog - Week 9

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 18, 2021, 13:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD0NCQ5w_3GtT_xHr35i7h8BuLX4UcHNY6VHPGREmDVObA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ED260A04-153A-46D5-8A84-CF517085DEC9@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 1:59 PM Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Here's my latest blog post:
> https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week9

Great!

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> A part that may be interesting to list readers:
>
> - In one section of the blog, I describe the problem of the git
>   submodule configuration not updating properly, when I launch
>   a subprocess that first initialises the submodule. I will
>   appreciate it if someone has a possible explanation for the
>   issue I faced at:
>   https://atharvaraykar.me/gitnotes/week9#launching-the-init-part-as-a-subprocess

My wild guess about why is_submodule_active() might not be working as expected is that submodule_from_path() uses the submodule cache which might not be properly updated when a submodule is initialized by a subprocess.

> The rest of the post talks about my project progress so far, and how I
> avoided the above problem entirely for now by taking a different approach.

Nice that you found a possible better way!