Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/15] fetch: don't overlay config with submodule-config

From: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:48:25 -0700

On 07/25, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Brandon Williams <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > Don't rely on overlaying the repository's config on top of the
> > submodule-config, instead query the repository's config directly for the
> > fetch_recurse field.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
> 
> > ---
> >  builtin/fetch.c |  1 -
> >  submodule.c     | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
> > index d84c26391..3fe99073d 100644
> > --- a/builtin/fetch.c
> > +++ b/builtin/fetch.c
> > @@ -1362,7 +1362,6 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
> >
> >         if (recurse_submodules != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF) {
> >                 gitmodules_config();
> > -               git_config(submodule_config, NULL);
> >         }
> >
> >         if (all) {
> > diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
> > index 8b9e48a61..c5058a4b8 100644
> > --- a/submodule.c
> > +++ b/submodule.c
> > @@ -1210,14 +1210,24 @@ static int get_next_submodule(struct child_process *cp,
> >
> >                 default_argv = "yes";
> >                 if (spf->command_line_option == RECURSE_SUBMODULES_DEFAULT) {
> > -                       if (submodule &&
> > -                           submodule->fetch_recurse !=
> > -                                               RECURSE_SUBMODULES_NONE) {
> > -                               if (submodule->fetch_recurse ==
> > -                                               RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF)
> > +                       int fetch_recurse = RECURSE_SUBMODULES_NONE;
> > +
> > +                       if (submodule) {
> > +                               char *key;
> > +                               const char *value;
> > +
> > +                               fetch_recurse = submodule->fetch_recurse;
> > +                               key = xstrfmt("submodule.%s.fetchRecurseSubmodules", submodule->name);
> > +                               if (!repo_config_get_string_const(the_repository, key, &value)) {
> > +                                       fetch_recurse = parse_fetch_recurse_submodules_arg(key, value);
> > +                               }
> > +                               free(key);
> > +                       }
> 
> I wonder if it would be better to parse this in builtin/fetch.c#git_fetch_config
> and then pass it in here as a parameter, instead of looking it up directly here?
> That way it is easier to keep track of what a builtin pays attention to.

Really the fact that you can configure individual submodules in
.gitmodules to be fetched recursively or not is a terrible design IMO.
Also this is a per-submodule configuration so having it in
builtin/fetch.c would be incredibly annoying to handle.

> 
> 
> > +
> > +                       if (fetch_recurse != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_NONE) {
> > +                               if (fetch_recurse == RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF)
> >                                         continue;
> > -                               if (submodule->fetch_recurse ==
> > -                                               RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON_DEMAND) {
> > +                               if (fetch_recurse == RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON_DEMAND) {
> >                                         if (!unsorted_string_list_lookup(&changed_submodule_paths, ce->name))
> >                                                 continue;
> >                                         default_argv = "on-demand";
> > --
> > 2.14.0.rc0.400.g1c36432dff-goog
> >

-- 
Brandon Williams