On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am not so sure about that. If there is an existing place that is
> buggy, shouldn't we fix that, instead of spreading the same bug
> (assuming that it is a bug in the first place, which I do not have a
> strong opinion on, at least not yet)?
>
> Can there be .git/modules/<foo>/ repository that is pointed at an
> in-tree .git file when there is no "name" defined?
If you're holding it wrong we can come into that state.
* Checkout the submodule,
* then remove .gitmodules as well as relevant config in .git/config.
Result: Then we have a only a gitlink recorded as well as connected
working tree to a gitdir inside a superprojects .git/modules/.
> I thought we
> errored out in module_name helper function in git-submodule.sh when
> we need a name and only have path (I just checked in the maint-2.6
> track); did we break it recently? submodule--helper.c::module_name()
> seems to error out when submodule_from_path() fails to find one and
> will segfault if it does not have name, so it is not likely.
The name is literally the only thing that is not optional in a struct submodule
(see submodule-config.c:182 In lookup_or_create_by_name, these structs are
added to the internal cache.
Stepping back a bit, I think we'd want to document this expectation more
in the man pages
The name unlike the path of a submodule must not be changed (as the
name is used internally to point at the submodules git dir)
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