On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:21 PM Yaroslav Halchenko <y...@onerussian.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
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> > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > > > the initial "git submodule update --reset-hard" is pretty much a
> > > > crude workaround for some of those cases, so I would just go earlier in
> > > > the history, and redo some things, whenever I could just drop or revert
> > > > some selected set of commits.
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> > > That makes sense.
> > > Do you want to give the implementation a try for the --reset-hard switch?
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> > ok, will do, thanks for the blessing ;-)
>
> The patch is attached (please advise if should be done
> differently) and also submitted as PR
> https://github.com/git/git/pull/563

Yes, usually we send patches inline
(Random example:
https://public-inbox.org/git/244bdf2a6fc300f2b535ac8edfc2fbdaf5260266.1544465177.git.gitgitgad...@gmail.com/T/#u
compared to 
https://public-inbox.org/git/20181208042139.ga4...@hopa.kiewit.dartmouth.edu/
(which I am replying to))

See Documentation/SubmittingPatches.

There are some tools that provide a GithubPR -> emailPatch workflow at
https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git
I think if you'd open your pull request there, then it would be automatically
mailed to the list correctly.

I left some comments on the PR.

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> I guess it would need more tests.

Writing tests is hard, as we don't know what we expect to break. ;-)

> Took me some time to figure out
> why I was getting
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>         fatal: bad value for update parameter
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> after all my changes to the git-submodule.sh script after looking at an
> example commit 42b491786260eb17d97ea9fb1c4b70075bca9523 which introduced
> --merge to the update ;-)

Yeah I saw you also updated the submodule related C code, was that
fatal message related to that?

Thanks,
Stefan

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