Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:00:10PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx> writes: >> >> > The git-submodule script doesn't need this and is fine using plain old >> > "git config", as by the time it is run the .gitmodules file is already >> > updated in the work tree. Heiko's series is about adding infrastructure >> > to allow builtins like checkout and friends to access the configuration >> > values from the .gitmodules file of the to-be-checked-out commit when >> > run with "--recurse-submodules". And yes, if we want to expose this >> > functionality to users or scripts some day "git config" looks like the >> > best place to do that to me too. >> >> Did you mean "git submodule config"? > > I think he actually meant "git config" and that is already implemented. > When I implemented the infrastructure to read configurations from blobs, > Peff extended it so it will be exposed via the config command line. E.g. > you can do: > > git config --blob HEAD^^^:.gitmodules <value> > > to get .gitmodules configurations from the history, so that is already > implemented. And for reading .gitmodules values we probably do not need > more,... Ah, I see. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html