From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:31:04 GMT
Subject: Re: submodule init problem
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707252129150.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580707251325i2633777pdd7604b541506533@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Lars Hjemli wrote:

> On 7/25/07, Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 06:49:26PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > Ok, this appears it most likely to be related to the fact that
> > > one is a prefix of the other in problematic case.
> > 
> > Yes, this has been noted before and Chris Larson sent in a patch,
> > but he didn't follow up on it.
> 
> The following seems to work (in my limitied testing):
> 
>  eol='$'
>  git config --get-regexp '^submodule\..*\.path$' "^$1$eol"

Ah, now I get it.  You are looking for the _key_ whose value is "$1".  But 
then you really should use "^$1$", and not just "$1", otherwise you will 
get unintended behaviour when one submodule's name is a substring of 
another submodule's name.

And you do not need the eol hack.

Ciao,
Dscho