From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: gitster@pobox.com, bmwill@google.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] submodule-config: clarify parsing of null_sha1 element
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 16:17:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161102231722.15787-4-sbeller@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161102231722.15787-1-sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt
index 81921e477b..1df7a827ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt
@@ -55,8 +55,11 @@ Functions
The same as above but lookup by name.
-If given the null_sha1 as commit_sha1 the local configuration of a
-submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git
+Whenever a submodule configuration is parsed in `parse_submodule_config_option`
+via e.g. `gitmodules_config()`, it will be overwrite the entry with the sha1
+zeroed out. So in the normal case, when HEAD:.gitmodules is parsed first and
+then overlayed with the repository configuration, the null_sha1 entry contains
+the local configuration of a submodule (e.g. consolidated values from local git
configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree).
For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c.
--
2.10.2.621.g399b625.dirty
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-02 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-02 23:17 [PATCH 0/3] submodule-config: clarify/cleanup docs and header Stefan Beller
2016-11-02 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] submodule config: inline config_from_{name, path} Stefan Beller
2016-11-02 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] submodule-config: rename commit_sha1 to commit_or_tree Stefan Beller
2016-11-03 5:36 ` Jacob Keller
2016-11-02 23:17 ` Stefan Beller [this message]
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