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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [1.8.0] Don't copy "submodule.<name>.update" to .git/config on submodule init
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:54:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D65660D.3040501@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vwrll57ha.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Proposal:

Stop copying the "submodule.<name>.update" entries into .git/config
on "git submodule init". The current behavior makes it impossible
for upstream to change defaults later, as this value can only be
altered through user intervention when it resides in .git/config.
This is a good thing when he chose to copy it there, but it doesn't
seem to make much sense doing it by default. When for example
upstream wants to provide a branch for hacking on an otherwise
ignored submodule, it cannot do that without the users intervention
right now.

This change also makes sense in preparation of recursive submodule
checkout, as that will be controlled by this option. Also notice
that the proposed behavior is already used for the "ignore" and
"fetchRecurseSubmodules" entries.

History:

I can't tell why that copy is done as I wasn't following the list
closely at the time this was implemented. Maybe someone else can
shed some light on that?

Risks:

Users could be surprised that upstream can change the value of the
"update" configuration when the submodule was initialized with a
git version >= 1.8.0.

Migration plan:

In 1.8.0 stop copying the "submodule.<name>.update" entries into
.git/config and add an option ("--update"?) to reactivate the old
behavior of "git submodule init" if the user wants that. Announce
both in the release notes of 1.8.0.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-23 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 126+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  5:53 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #06; Sun, 30) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 15:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-08 17:48   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-08 19:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:05 ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:06   ` [1.8.0] default "git merge" without argument to "git merge @{u}" Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:14     ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 20:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:32         ` Felipe Contreras
2011-01-31 20:50     ` [1.8.0] (v2) " Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:55       ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  0:01         ` Thomas Adam
2011-02-01 18:34         ` Scott Chacon
2011-02-01 20:11           ` moving to a git-backed wiki Jeff King
2011-02-01 22:36             ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 22:48               ` J.H.
2011-02-02  9:55                 ` Vincent Hanquez
2011-02-02 10:53                   ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-02 11:14                     ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-03  2:24                   ` J.H.
2011-02-03 17:45                     ` Jeff King
2011-02-03 19:06                       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-04  6:03                         ` Jeff King
2011-02-03 20:34                       ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-04  6:16                         ` Jeff King
2011-02-04 17:50                           ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-04 14:34                       ` Joey Hess
2011-02-05  7:00                         ` david
2011-02-04  7:31         ` [1.8.0] (v2) default "git merge" without argument to "git merge @{u}" Thomas Hochstein
2011-02-04 23:01     ` [PATCH/RFC] Add support for merging from upstream by default Jared Hance
2011-01-31 17:07   ` [1.8.0] Unify "pathspec" semantics Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 14:56     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-31 20:28   ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 20:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 21:08       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 21:33         ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:19       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:00     ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 21:28       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:36           ` João P. Sampaio
2011-01-31 22:37           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 23:12         ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  0:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01  1:48             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  4:05               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 12:42                 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 11:14                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 11:22                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 13:08                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 16:02                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 21:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01  0:35           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-01  1:53             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  1:00           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-01  1:57             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  7:24           ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 14:42         ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-01-31 21:59     ` [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests Jakub Narebski
2011-01-31 22:32       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01  0:12         ` Alex Budovski
2011-02-01  0:33           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01  0:58             ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01  1:15             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-02 23:55               ` Sam Vilain
2011-02-01 18:26     ` [1.8.0] split largest remaining scripts, gitk and gitweb Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01 22:15       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 23:20         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-05  3:21     ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-31 21:44   ` [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches Thomas Rast
2011-01-31 22:18     ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 22:24     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:27     ` Eugene Sajine
2011-01-31 23:06       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:39         ` Eugene Sajine
2011-02-01  1:13           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:22     ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  7:04     ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 15:58       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 22:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 21:05     ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-02-01 22:39       ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 23:25         ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-01-31 21:55   ` [1.8.0] forbid full fetchspecs in git-pull Thomas Rast
2011-01-31 22:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:15     ` Dmitry Potapov
2011-02-01 15:14       ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 20:23         ` Dmitry Potapov
2011-02-01  3:20   ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01  4:16     ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 14:54     ` [1.8.0] Tag namespaces Marc Branchaud
2011-02-01 15:21       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 18:37   ` [1.8.0] Remove deprecated commands René Scharfe
2011-02-01 22:16     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-02  0:57     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-10 19:42       ` René Scharfe
2011-02-10 20:56         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-10 21:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-12 13:24           ` René Scharfe
2011-02-12 21:04             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-13 23:14             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 21:41   ` [1.8.0] Handle submodule config options consistently in diff plumbing Jens Lehmann
2011-02-02 11:56   ` [1.8.0] Tracking empty directories Jakub Narebski
2011-02-02 23:23     ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-02 23:33       ` David Aguilar
2011-02-02 23:52         ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-03  2:21         ` Wesley J. Landaker
2011-02-03  5:53           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-03 10:07           ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-05  7:43         ` Pete Harlan
2011-02-05 18:31     ` Thomas Koch
2011-02-05 19:00       ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-05 22:37         ` Jared Hance
2011-02-06 20:41         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-06 20:46           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-06  4:42       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-02 17:23   ` [1.8.0] git-stash invocation changes Thomas Rast
2011-02-02 17:35     ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-02 18:15       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-02 18:51         ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-09 14:35           ` Pat Notz
2011-02-23 19:54   ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2011-02-23 20:28     ` [1.8.0] Don't copy "submodule.<name>.update" to .git/config on submodule init Junio C Hamano
2011-02-23 22:43       ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-24  0:34         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-24 23:44           ` Jens Lehmann

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