Re: [PATCH 1/2] submodule: create helper to build paths to submodule gitdirs

[Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:33 PM Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com> wrote:
>
> Introduce a helper function "submodule_name_to_gitdir()" (and the
> submodule--helper subcommand "gitdir") which constructs a path to a
> submodule's gitdir, located in the provided repository's "modules"
> directory.

Makes sense.

>
> This consolidates the logic needed to build up a path into a
> repository's "modules" directory, abstracting away the fact that
> submodule git directories are stored in a repository's common gitdir.
> This makes it easier to adjust how submodules gitdir are stored in the
> "modules" directory in a future patch.

and yet, all places that we touch were and still are broken for old-style
submodules that have their git directory inside the working tree?
Do we need to pay attention to those, too?


> diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
> index 8b5ad59bde..053747d290 100755
> --- a/git-submodule.sh
> +++ b/git-submodule.sh

> @@ -577,7 +578,7 @@ cmd_update()
>                         die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to find current \${remote_name}/\${branch} revision in submodule path '\$sm_path'")"
>                 fi
>
> -               if ! $(git config -f "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/modules/$name/config" core.worktree) 2>/dev/null
> +               if ! $(git config -f "$(git submodule--helper gitdir "$name")/config" core.worktree) 2>/dev/null

This will collide with origin/sb/submodule-update-in-c specifically
1c866b9831d (submodule--helper: replace connect-gitdir-workingtree
by ensure-core-worktree, 2018-08-03), but as that removes these lines,
it should be easy to resolve the conflict.