On Tue, Aug 14 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:59 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The tests added in 63e95beb08 ("submodule: port resolve_relative_url
>> from shell to C", 2016-04-15) didn't do a good job of testing various
>> up-path invocations where the up-path would bring us beyond even the
>> URL in question without emitting an error.
>>
>> These results look nonsensical, but it's worth exhaustively testing
>> them before fixing any of this code, so we can see which of these
>> cases were changed.
>
> Yeah. Please look at the comment in builtin/submodule--helper.c
> in that commit, where I described my expectations.
>
> I should have put them into tests instead with the expectations
> spelled out there.
I'll check that out thanks. I saw that comment, but have been skimming
most of this code...
> Thanks for this patch!
> Stefan
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>
>
>> So I think these tests are worthwihle in themselves,
>
> The reason I put it in the comment instead of tests was the
> ease of spelling out both the status quo and expectations.
>
>> but would like
>> some advice on how to proceed with that from someone more familiar
>> with submodules.
>
> So ideally we'd also error out as soon as the host name is touched?
Do we have some utility function that'll take whatever we have in
remote.<name>.url and spew out the username / host / path? We must,
since the clone protocol needs it, but I haven't found it.
