From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 03:42:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 3/3] submodule-config: clarify parsing of null_sha1 element
Message-ID: <xmqqziksfae3.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161122013550.1800-4-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> +Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option`
> +via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will be overwrite the null_sha1 entry.

It will overwrite?  It will be overwritten?  I guess it is the latter?

> +So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and then overlayed
> +with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains the local
> +configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git
>  configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree).
>  
>  For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c.