Re: [GSoC Patch v6 2/7] repo: add path.superproject-root with absolute and relative suffixes

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2026, 22:08 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmrtn8mpx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260911144519.1011780-3-jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>

K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com> writes:

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> Scripts working in multi-repository setups often need to identify the
> top-level working tree of a superproject from within a submodule.
> Currently, this is only exposed via `git rev-parse
> --show-superproject-working-tree`.
>
> Introduce `path.superproject-root.absolute` and
> `path.superproject-root.relative` keys to `git repo info`.
> This exposes the core submodule context via a scriptable config-like key
> using standard format rules.
>
> If requested when not inside a submodule, the command returns an empty
> string.
>
> Mentored-by: Justin Tobler <jltobler@gmail.com>
> Mentored-by: Lucas Seiki Oshiro <lucasseikioshiro@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: K Jayatheerth <jayatheerthkulkarni2005@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-repo.adoc | 10 +++++++
>  builtin/repo.c              | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  builtin/rev-parse.c         |  2 +-
>  submodule.c                 | 43 ++++++++++++++--------------
>  submodule.h                 |  2 +-
>  t/t1900-repo-info.sh        | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Correcting get_superproject_working_tree(), which was introduced by bf0231c661 (rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree, 2017-03-08), is a major part of this step. The old commit added a single test for very basic use but this step makes not-so-basic use cases to also work correctly, right?

It may be a good idea to split this step into two patches:

 - a patch that corrects get_superproject_working_tree(), that adds
   a new test or two to t1500-rev-parse.sh, next to where bf0231c661
   (rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree, 2017-03-08)
   added its test.  The test would fail without the code fix to
   demonstrate what we improved.

 - another patch that uses improved get_superproject_working_tree()
   to add path.superproject-root.* keys, together with the updates
   to t1900-repo-info.sh to add tests for the new feature.