Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> When we have a another clone of a superproject, we may want to
> mirror the submodules using alternates. Introduce an option
> `--super-reference` that let's a user point to another superproject,
> which is assumed to have the same structure as the one they are
> running the "submodule update" command from and has all submodules
> checked out to borrow the submodule objects from within the other
> superprojects git directory.
That's much better than the previous round.
I however have trouble with the "checked out", though. Isn't it
that it merely has to be "init"ed? For that matter, as long as
super.git has $GIT_DIR/modules/ populated fully, it does not matter
it has checkout, and more interestingly and importantly, the
superproject mirror can even be a bare repository!
> +--super-reference <superproject repository>::
> + This option is only valid for the update command. When update needs
> + to clone a repository, a reference will be passed to the clone command
> + that points at the submodule path inside the reference superproject.
"points at the submodule path inside" sounds as if we would look at
/var/cache/super/libs/xyzzy
in the scenario in <xmqqoa57vvzl.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
when you give us "--super-reference=/var/cache/super". Can we
clarify to avoid such a misread?
> +superreference=
Please don't name a multiple_word field "multipleword".
> cached=
> recursive=
> init=
> @@ -520,6 +521,14 @@ cmd_update()
> --reference=*)
> reference="$1"
> ;;
> + --super-reference)
> + case "$2" in '') usage ;; esac
> + superreference="--super-reference=$2"
> + shift
> + ;;
> + --super-reference=*)
> + superreference="$1"
> + ;;
> -m|--merge)
> update="merge"
> ;;
> @@ -576,6 +585,7 @@ cmd_update()
> ${prefix:+--recursive-prefix "$prefix"} \
> ${update:+--update "$update"} \
> ${reference:+"$reference"} \
> + ${superreference:+"$superreference"} \
> ${depth:+--depth "$depth"} \
> ${recommend_shallow:+"$recommend_shallow"} \
> ${jobs:+$jobs} \
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