Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] introduce submodule.superprojectGitDir cache

[Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 01:43:36PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > As I said, I think it is OK for now to stop at declaring that you
> > cannot simply do it without hinting something that may not fully
> > work.
> 
> I'll add the following to the tip of the topic for now.

Just saw this - yes, it looks fine to me. I'll squash that locally in
case anybody has more comments and wants a reroll.

> 
> 
>  Documentation/config/submodule.txt | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git c/Documentation/config/submodule.txt w/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
> index 7c459cc19e..58ba63a75e 100644
> --- c/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/config/submodule.txt
> @@ -97,8 +97,5 @@ submodule.superprojectGitDir::
>  	submodules, but is not guaranteed to be present in every submodule. It
>  	is set automatically during submodule creation.
>  +
> -	In situations where more than one superproject references the same
> -	submodule worktree, the value of this config and the behavior of
> -	operations which use it are undefined. To reference a single project
> -	from multiple superprojects, it is better to create a worktree of the
> -	submodule for each superproject.
> +Because of this configuration variable, it is forbidden to use the
> +same submodule worktree shared by multiple superprojects.