On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:16 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 14 2018, Stefan Beller wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:05 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> > 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. > > > > Nope. Welcome to the wonderful world of submodules. > > As submodules are in the transition state towards "in C", > > we could do some refactorings that would allow for easy access to > > these properties, but the transition is done via faithful conversion from > > shell to C, which did not have these functions either, but could just > > do some string hackery. And that is how we ended up with this > > function in the first place. > > The remote/clone machinery is in C and so is the resolve-relative-url > helper. What's the missing bridge here? > > Maybe we don't have that function yet, but we can presumably expose it, > and this seems unrelated to some other bits of submodules being in > shellscript. > > No? Gah, I misread your original question. Sorry about that.
