Subject: Re: [WIP PATCH 1/4] Prepare checkout_entry() for recursive checkout of submodules

From: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:11:08 +0200

Am 09.04.2010 23:59, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> +int checkout_submodule(const char *path, const unsigned char sha1[20], int force)
>> +{
>> +	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
>> +	struct child_process cp;
>> +	const char *hex_sha1 = sha1_to_hex(sha1);
>> +	const char *argv[] = {
>> +		"checkout",
>> +                force ? "-qf" : "-q",
>> +		hex_sha1,
>> +		NULL,
>> +	};
> 
> Why force -q?

Good question. I seem to have tried to silence the output of checkout
from run_command(), which AFIACS doesn't reach the console anyway
unless i want it to ... (while at the same time managing to mess up
the tabs in that line ... :-/ )

>> +	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s/.git/", path);
>> +	if (!is_directory(buf.buf)) {
>> +		strbuf_release(&buf);
>> +		/* The submodule is not populated, so we can't check it out */
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
> 
> This would give you an incorrect result if .git is a file that records
> "gitdir: overthere" (see read_gitfile_gently() in setup.c); I would expect
> it would become a fairly important ingredient if we ever enhance the
> submodule support to add submodule that disappears/reappears in the
> history.

Right. This assumption is also present in add_submodule_odb() (used by
show_submodule_summary()) and is_submodule_modified(), so i just reused
it. This should be addressed in another patch.