Re: [PATCH 11/17] odb: get rid of `the_repository` when handling submodule backends

[Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>]

On 5/6/25 7:09 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> The "--recursive" flag for git-grep(1) allows users to grep for a string
> across submodule boundaries. To make this work we add each submodule's
> object backend to our own object database so that the objects can be
> accessed directly.


> +static int register_all_submodule_backends(struct object_database *odb)
> +{
> +	int ret = odb->submodule_backend_paths.nr;
> +
> +	for (size_t i = 0; i < odb->submodule_backend_paths.nr; i++)
> +		odb_add_to_alternates_memory(odb,
> +					     odb->submodule_backend_paths.items[i].string);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		string_list_clear(&odb->submodule_backend_paths, 0);
> +		trace2_data_intmax("submodule", odb->repo,
> +				   "register_all_submodule_backends/registered", ret);
> +		if (git_env_bool("GIT_TEST_FATAL_REGISTER_SUBMODULE_ODB", 0))
> +			BUG("register_all_submodule_backends() called");

Did you plan to create a test around this test variable?

Thanks,
-Stolee