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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Uma Srinivasan <usrinivasan@twitter.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
	Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>,
	Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: git submodules implementation question
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:44:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh9a022xt.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN5XQfvK7M5eSkMfz5iRTnE_va9VGjONAPO5hmF+iQg-i3XEpQ@mail.gmail.com> (Uma Srinivasan's message of "Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:40:03 -0700")

Uma Srinivasan <usrinivasan@twitter.com> writes:

> diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
> index 5a62aa2..23443a7 100644
> --- a/submodule.c
> +++ b/submodule.c
> @@ -960,6 +960,9 @@ unsigned is_submodule_modified(const char *path,
> int ignore_untracked)
>                 return 0;
>
>         }
> +       /* stuff submodule git dir into env var */
> +       set_git_dir(git_dir);

We want to affect only the process we are going to spawn to work
inside the submodule, not ourselves, which is what this call does;
this does not sound like a good idea.


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28 23:24 git submodules implementation question Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-29 20:03 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 21:03   ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-29 21:09     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 21:13       ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-29 23:04         ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-29 23:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-29 23:34             ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-30  0:02             ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-30  0:12               ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-30  6:09                 ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-30  6:23                   ` Jacob Keller
2016-08-30 17:40                     ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-30 17:53                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-31  2:54                         ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-31 16:42                           ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-31 18:40                             ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-08-31 18:44                               ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2016-08-31 18:58                                 ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-09-01  1:04                                   ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-09-01  4:09                             ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 16:05                               ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-09-01 18:32                                 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 18:37                                   ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-01 19:19                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 19:56                                       ` Uma Srinivasan
2016-09-01 20:29                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 20:21                                       ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 21:02                                         ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-01 21:04                                         ` Stefan Beller
2016-09-01 21:12                                           ` Junio C Hamano

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