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From: Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:44:10 +0200
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On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 09:13:55AM +0200, Lars Hjemli wrote:
> Then Sven suggested to create a submodule section for the url, which would 
> allow
> 
>  $ name=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git-config path."$path".submodule)
>  $ url=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git-config submodule."$name".url)
> 
> 
> But I don't see an easy way to do the mapping from path to url/submodule 
> with:
> 
> [submodule "xyzzylib"]
>  path=lib
>  url=git://xyzzy/lib-1.2.3
> 
> Suggestions?

I'm not a shell programmer, but it could look something like this

    $ name=$(git config --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.path' | while read module modulepath; do if test "$modulepath" = "$path"; then echo $module | sed -e 's/^submodule.//' -e 's/.path//'; fi; done)

skimo