From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de>
Cc: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt•net>,
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>,
Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx@gmail•com>, Jeff King <peff@peff•net>,
Git List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git issues with submodules
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:33:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1u23vty1.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5294EC11.2010405@web.de> (Jens Lehmann's message of "Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:44:33 +0100")
Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de> writes:
> Am 25.11.2013 22:01, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
>> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web•de> writes:
>>
>>> Looking good to me. Please add tests for "diff.ignoreSubmodules"
>>> and "submodule.<name>.ignore", the latter both in .gitmodules and
>>> .git/config. While doing some testing for this thread I found an
>>> inconsistency in git show which currently honors the submodule
>>> specific option only from .git/config and ignores it in the
>>> .gitmodules file ...
>>
>> Sorry, but isn't that what should happen? .git/config is the
>> ultimate source of the truth, and .gitmodules is a hint to prime
>> that when the user does "git submodule init", no?
>
> "git submodule init" only copies the "update" and "url" settings
> to .git/config, all others default to the value they have in the
> .gitmodules file if they aren't found in .git/config. This allows
> upstream to change these settings unless the user copies them to
> .git/config himself.
I know what the code does. I was questioning if "only copies X and
Y" is a sensible thing.
Copying at init time will fix the values when copied and give the
user a stable and dependable behaviour. I have a feeling that the
current "not copy to fix it to a stable value, but look into
.gitmodules as a fallback" was not a designed behaviour for the
other properties, but was done by accident and/or laziness.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-26 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-22 7:53 Git issues with submodules Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 11:16 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 11:35 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 13:08 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 15:11 ` Jeff King
2013-11-22 15:42 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 16:35 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 17:01 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 17:40 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 18:11 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 21:01 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-11-22 21:46 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-22 21:54 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-22 22:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-11-23 20:10 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-11-24 0:52 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-24 16:29 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-11-25 9:02 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-25 17:49 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-25 17:57 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-25 18:15 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:16 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 0/4] less ignorance of submodules for ignore=all Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:19 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 1/4] disable complete ignorance of submodules for index <-> HEAD diff Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:21 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 2/4] fix 'git add' to skip submodules configured as ignored Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:21 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 3/4] teach add -f option for ignored submodules Heiko Voigt
2013-12-06 23:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-09 21:51 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:23 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 4/4] always show committed submodules in summary after commit Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:26 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH 0/4] less ignorance of submodules for ignore=all Heiko Voigt
2013-12-04 22:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-12-04 23:19 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-12-05 20:51 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-12-09 21:41 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-12-09 22:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-25 21:01 ` Git issues with submodules Junio C Hamano
2013-11-26 18:44 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-11-26 19:33 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-11-26 19:51 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-11-26 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-23 1:11 ` [RFC PATCH] disable complete ignorance of submodules for index <-> HEAD diff Heiko Voigt
2013-11-25 9:01 ` Sergey Sharybin
2013-11-28 7:10 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-29 23:11 ` [RFC/WIP PATCH v2] " Heiko Voigt
2013-11-23 7:04 ` Re: Git issues with submodules Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-23 20:32 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-11-24 1:06 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-25 20:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-29 22:50 ` Heiko Voigt
2013-11-23 6:53 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 16:12 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-11-22 20:20 ` Jens Lehmann
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