Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] submodule: munge paths to submodule git directories

From: Brandon Williams <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 10:34:12 -0700

On 08/15, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Stefan Beller wrote:
> > Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
> >> All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
> >> want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
> >> the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
> >> optimization.
> >
> > Sounds good, but gerrit for example would not take advantage of such
> > optimisation as they have slashes in their submodules. :-(
> > I wonder if we can optimize further and keep slashes if there is
> > no conflict (as then name == gitdirname, so it can be optimized).
> 
> One possibility would be to treat gsub("/", "%2f") as another of the
> easy cases.
> 
> [...]
> >> And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
> >> haven't handled yet today:
> >>
> >> - sharding when the number of submodules is too large
> >> - case-insensitive filesystems
> >> - path name length limits
> >> - different sets of filesystem-special characters
> >>
> >> Sane?

Seems like a sensible thing to do. Let me work up some patches to
implement this using config primarily and these other schemes as
fallbacks.

> >
> > I'll keep thinking about it.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > FYI: the reduction in configuration was just sent out.
> 
> https://public-inbox.org/git/[email-masked]/
> for those following along.
> 
> Ciao,
> Jonathan

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Brandon Williams