Re: [PATCH v3 02/10] submodule status: use submodule--helper is-active

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2017, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqa88nip9z.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kZ6noz7RGbmNwg=NhuWYH=KbNPYUWL7We9YjbHn6uf2Jg@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> There we take the path as name and if a real name exists, the name
> is overwritten with the real name, i.e.
>
>     name = name_for_path(path) ? name_for_path(path) : path;
>
> which IMHO is overly accepting and we should just die in case of
> !name_for_path.

Yes, I agree that falling back (unless path is a submodule yet to be added to .gitmodules) is bad.

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