Re: query on git submodule (ignore)
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:46 AM Junio C Hamanowrote: > prashant Nidgunde writes: > [cc: stefan, for his interest in improving 'git submodules'] > > Hello, > > > > I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. > > > > Case : > > Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. > > > > After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore > > that adding a line in .gitmodules > > > > But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone > > because of typos ) > > > > > > Question: > > 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : > >git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will > > ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in > > its directory) > How does it prevent you from saying > git submodule "glib" ignore dirty > when you really meant "zlib"? How is the command supposed to know > that you did *not* mean "glib", which may currently not exist in the > index nor in the working tree yet but you are about to create, and > doing the "ignore dirty" configuration as an earlier step of > multiple steps to add a submodule? > I personally doubt that the main issue you should be concerned about > is feasibility. A larger issue is how it is supposed to help, iow, > is such a "feature" useful in the first place? > Whenever you hear yourself say "I have to do X manually, and I can > make mistakes. Can a command do it instead?", you have to ask > yourself: what pieces of information do you give to that command, > and how do you ensure you do not make typos on that command line? > Besides, the above syntax would not work. What would a user do when > a submodule called "add" exists, for example? I would think this can be solved by reordering the command to be git submodule ignore [--option-for-granularity=dirty] [-- ] However for now this would be a shallow wrapper to name=$(git submodule--helper name ) git config submodule.$name.ignore dirty if I understand the requested feature correctly? Instead of coming up with each name for each submodule path (btw name and path are most often the same any way, just put it here for correctness), one could also use git submodule foreach -- \ git -C .. config submodule.$name.ignore dirty as the foreach already populates the $name variable. Stefan
Re: query on git submodule (ignore)
prashant Nidgundewrites: [cc: stefan, for his interest in improving 'git submodules'] > Hello, > > I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. > > Case : > Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. > > After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore > that adding a line in .gitmodules > > But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone > because of typos ) > > > Question: > 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : >git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will > ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in > its directory) How does it prevent you from saying git submodule "glib" ignore dirty when you really meant "zlib"? How is the command supposed to know that you did *not* mean "glib", which may currently not exist in the index nor in the working tree yet but you are about to create, and doing the "ignore dirty" configuration as an earlier step of multiple steps to add a submodule? I personally doubt that the main issue you should be concerned about is feasibility. A larger issue is how it is supposed to help, iow, is such a "feature" useful in the first place? Whenever you hear yourself say "I have to do X manually, and I can make mistakes. Can a command do it instead?", you have to ask yourself: what pieces of information do you give to that command, and how do you ensure you do not make typos on that command line? Besides, the above syntax would not work. What would a user do when a submodule called "add" exists, for example?
Re: query on git submodule (ignore)
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, prashant Nidgundewrote: > Hello, > > I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. > > Case : > Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. > > After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore > that adding a line in .gitmodules > > But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone > because of typos ) > > > Question: > 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : >git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will > ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in > its directory) > > If this feature is feasible , how do i know if its developed ( > awaiting merge ) or can I build the patch ? > I don't recall such a feature, but I'm sure patches to implement something would be welcome to be reviewed! (For more information about submitting patches you could read https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches) I think having an option to automatically write this would be useful. It may already be possible to do something similar via the git config command with the -f file argument to edit the .gitmodules file (as it uses the gitconfig format for its contents). However, this is definitely not intuitive. You can read the documentation for the commands using "git help submodule" and "git help config". Patches are also definitely welcome for updates to the documentation if it's not clear. I know also that having a simpler interface to set submodules up so that they are treated as unchanged would be useful as I have projects at $dayjob which use submodules, and this is often a complaint against their use by my co-workers (who sometimes then accidentally commit re-wind updates to the submodules due to inattentiveness with use of git add . or git commit -a). Thanks, Jake
query on git submodule (ignore)
Hello, I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. Case : Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore that adding a line in .gitmodules But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone because of typos ) Question: 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in its directory) If this feature is feasible , how do i know if its developed ( awaiting merge ) or can I build the patch ? Regards, Prashant