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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/submodule: Fix submodule.<name> -> .<path> typos

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5 messages between Mar 27, 2014 and Mar 28, 2014. Diffs are folded; open one to read it.

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W. Trevor King· Mar 27, 2014, 21:06 UTC · lore

The transition from submodule.<path>.* to submodule.<name>.* happened in 73b0898d (Teach "git submodule add" the --name option, 2012-09-30), which landed in v1.8.1-rc0 on 2012-12-03. The first submodule.<path>.branch reference landed a short time later in b9289227 (submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in .gitmodules, 2012-12-19), and I was probably just not aware of 73b0898d. The second submodule.<path>.branch reference landed in 23d25e48 (submodule: explicit local branch creation in module_clone, 2014-01-26), and is just a copy paste error. This commit updates both references to the current submodule.<name>.branch.

Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
---
This patch is against master, because 23d25e48 hasn't landed in maint
yet.  If you want, I can split this into two patches, one against
maint fixing the b9289227 typo and another against master fixing the
23d25e48 typo.
 Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Show changes to Documentation/git-submodule.txt +2 −2
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 46c1eeb..77588b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ update::
 +
 For updates that clone missing submodules, checkout-mode updates will
 create submodules with detached HEADs; all other modes will create
-submodules with a local branch named after `submodule.<path>.branch`.
+submodules with a local branch named after `submodule.<name>.branch`.
 +
 For updates that do not clone missing submodules, the submodule's HEAD
 is only touched when the remote reference does not match the
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -b::
 --branch::
 	Branch of repository to add as submodule.
-	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<path>.branch` in
+	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in
 	`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`.
 
 -f::
-- 
1.9.1.352.gd393d14.dirty
Jens Lehmann· Mar 27, 2014, 23:15 UTC · re: W. Trevor King · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submodule: Fix submodule.<name> -> .<path> typos

Am 27.03.2014 22:06, schrieb W. Trevor King:
> The transition from submodule.<path>.* to submodule.<name>.* happened
> in 73b0898d (Teach "git submodule add" the --name option, 2012-09-30),
> which landed in v1.8.1-rc0 on 2012-12-03.

Nope, the distinction between path and name is way older (AFAIK it is there from day one). That was just the point in time where you could choose a different name without editing .gitmodules. And the fact that the name is initialized with the path confused a lot of people.

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>  The first
> submodule.<path>.branch reference landed a short time later in
> b9289227 (submodule add: If --branch is given, record it in
> .gitmodules, 2012-12-19), and I was probably just not aware of
> 73b0898d.  The second submodule.<path>.branch reference landed in
> 23d25e48 (submodule: explicit local branch creation in module_clone,
> 2014-01-26), and is just a copy paste error.  This commit updates both
> references to the current submodule.<name>.branch.
> 
> Reported-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
> ---
> This patch is against master, because 23d25e48 hasn't landed in maint
> yet.  If you want, I can split this into two patches, one against
> maint fixing the b9289227 typo and another against master fixing the
> 23d25e48 typo.

This fixes the only two usages of 'submodule.<path>.*' in the Documentation I can see in current master.

Show 26 quoted lines
>  Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> index 46c1eeb..77588b0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ update::
>  +
>  For updates that clone missing submodules, checkout-mode updates will
>  create submodules with detached HEADs; all other modes will create
> -submodules with a local branch named after `submodule.<path>.branch`.
> +submodules with a local branch named after `submodule.<name>.branch`.
>  +
>  For updates that do not clone missing submodules, the submodule's HEAD
>  is only touched when the remote reference does not match the
> @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  -b::
>  --branch::
>  	Branch of repository to add as submodule.
> -	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<path>.branch` in
> +	The name of the branch is recorded as `submodule.<name>.branch` in
>  	`.gitmodules` for `update --remote`.
>  
>  -f::
> 
W. Trevor King· Mar 28, 2014, 02:06 UTC · re: Jens Lehmann · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submodule: Fix submodule.<name> -> .<path> typos

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote:
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> Am 27.03.2014 22:06, schrieb W. Trevor King:
> > The transition from submodule.<path>.* to submodule.<name>.* happened
> > in 73b0898d (Teach "git submodule add" the --name option, 2012-09-30),
> > which landed in v1.8.1-rc0 on 2012-12-03.
> 
> Nope, the distinction between path and name is way older (AFAIK it
> is there from day one). That was just the point in time where you
> could choose a different name without editing .gitmodules. And the
> fact that the name is initialized with the path confused a lot of
> people.
Before 73b0898d, cmd_add used:
  git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$sm_path".path "$sm_path"

and similar, so I used submodule.<path>.branch in my initial documentation of this patch (v5 of that series) [1]. By the final v8 (which rebased onto the then-current master with 73b0898d), the surrounding calls were [2]:

  git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$sm_name".path "$sm_path"

but I missed the update to <name> in my rebasing. I suppose I could have used <name> instead of <path> in my initial v5 patch, but I was one of the folks confused by the old name == path behavior ;).

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> > This patch is against master, because 23d25e48 hasn't landed in maint
> > yet.  If you want, I can split this into two patches, one against
> > maint fixing the b9289227 typo and another against master fixing the
> > 23d25e48 typo.
> 
> This fixes the only two usages of 'submodule.<path>.*' in the
> Documentation I can see in current master.

Right. However, this patch won't apply to the maint branch (where 23d25e48 hasn't landed). I'm just saying that we may want to split this patch in half and push the fix for b9289227 in a maintenance release. On the other hand, we've survived since 2012 with the current docs, so *not* splitting this patch apart works for me too.

Cheers, Trevor

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210763 [2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211832

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Jens Lehmann· Mar 28, 2014, 16:55 UTC · re: W. Trevor King · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submodule: Fix submodule.<name> -> .<path> typos

I just noticed that the two patches Junio added to pu have a reworded commit message I'm perfectly happy with.

Thanks all.
Am 28.03.2014 03:06, schrieb W. Trevor King:
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> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:15:00AM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote:
>> Am 27.03.2014 22:06, schrieb W. Trevor King:
>>> The transition from submodule.<path>.* to submodule.<name>.* happened
>>> in 73b0898d (Teach "git submodule add" the --name option, 2012-09-30),
>>> which landed in v1.8.1-rc0 on 2012-12-03.
>>
>> Nope, the distinction between path and name is way older (AFAIK it
>> is there from day one). That was just the point in time where you
>> could choose a different name without editing .gitmodules. And the
>> fact that the name is initialized with the path confused a lot of
>> people.
> 
> Before 73b0898d, cmd_add used:
> 
>   git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$sm_path".path "$sm_path"
> 
> and similar, so I used submodule.<path>.branch in my initial
> documentation of this patch (v5 of that series) [1].  By the final v8
> (which rebased onto the then-current master with 73b0898d), the
> surrounding calls were [2]:
> 
>   git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$sm_name".path "$sm_path"
> 
> but I missed the update to <name> in my rebasing.  I suppose I could
> have used <name> instead of <path> in my initial v5 patch, but I was
> one of the folks confused by the old name == path behavior ;).
> 
>>> This patch is against master, because 23d25e48 hasn't landed in maint
>>> yet.  If you want, I can split this into two patches, one against
>>> maint fixing the b9289227 typo and another against master fixing the
>>> 23d25e48 typo.
>>
>> This fixes the only two usages of 'submodule.<path>.*' in the
>> Documentation I can see in current master.
> 
> Right.  However, this patch won't apply to the maint branch (where
> 23d25e48 hasn't landed).  I'm just saying that we may want to split
> this patch in half and push the fix for b9289227 in a maintenance
> release.  On the other hand, we've survived since 2012 with the
> current docs, so *not* splitting this patch apart works for me too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Trevor
> 
> [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/210763
> [2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211832
> 
W. Trevor King· Mar 28, 2014, 17:01 UTC · re: Jens Lehmann · lore

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submodule: Fix submodule.<name> -> .<path> typos

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 05:55:18PM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> I just noticed that the two patches Junio added to pu have a
> reworded commit message I'm perfectly happy with.
The revised wording works for me too.

Cheers, Trevor

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