On 03/14, Brandon Williams wrote:
> On 03/14, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com> writes:
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmw...@google.com>
> > > ---
> > > git-submodule.sh | 3 +--
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
> > > index 136e26a2c..ab233712d 100755
> > > --- a/git-submodule.sh
> > > +++ b/git-submodule.sh
> > > @@ -1010,14 +1010,13 @@ cmd_status()
> > > do
> > > die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
> > > name=$(git submodule--helper name "$sm_path") || exit
> > > - url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
> > > displaypath=$(git submodule--helper relative-path
> > > "$prefix$sm_path" "$wt_prefix")
> > > if test "$stage" = U
> > > then
> > > say "U$sha1 $displaypath"
> > > continue
> > > fi
> > > - if test -z "$url" ||
> > > + if ! git submodule--helper is-active "$sm_path" ||
> > > {
> > > ! test -d "$sm_path"/.git &&
> > > ! test -f "$sm_path"/.git
> >
> > The $name is no longer used after this step in cmd_status function,
> > as the sole purpose of learning the name from the path was so that
> > we can ask if the submodule has .URL defined and the query is done
> > by name, not path.
>
> Thanks, I'll remove computing the name.
Actually looks like it should stay in for now. It's used to exit if
there doesn't exist a path mapping in the users .gitmodules for a given
submodule.
>
> >
> > This actually raises a question.
> >
> > Shouldn't "submodule--helper is-active" ask about submodule while
> > identifying the submodule in question by name? Or do all (or most
> > of) the callers start from path and ask is-active on them so that it
> > is handier to let them ask by path?
>
> As you can Stefan already discussed the path is a much easier handle to
> work with simply because that is what is more readily available as the
> name is an internal detail.
>
> --
> Brandon Williams
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