Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] submodule recursion in git-archive

From: Heiko Voigt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 23:38:58 +0100

Hi,

I like where this is going.

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 04:17:43PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
> Am 26.11.2013 01:04, schrieb Nick Townsend:
> > +		strbuf_addstr(&dotgit, work_tree);
> > +		strbuf_addch(&dotgit, '/');
> > +		if (args->treepath) {
> > +			  strbuf_addstr(&dotgit, args->treepath);
> > +			  strbuf_addch(&dotgit, '/');
> > +		}
> > +		strbuf_add(&dotgit, path_without_prefix,strlen(path_without_prefix)-1);
> > +		if (add_submodule_odb(dotgit.buf))
> > +			  die("Can't add submodule: %s", dotgit.buf);
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if we can traverse the tree and load all submodule object
> databases before traversing it again to actually write file contents.
> That would spare the user from getting half of an archive together with
> that error message.

I am not sure whether we should die here. What about submodules that
have not been initialized and or cloned? I think that is a quite regular
use case for example for libraries that not everyone needs or big media
submodules which only the design team uses. How about skipping them (maybe
issuing a warning) by returning 0 here and proceeding?

Cheers Heiko