> -----Original Message----- > From: git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:git-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Junio C Hamano > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:01 PM > To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-submodule: fix expansion of depth for cmd_update > > Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > The depth variable already contains "--depth=", so expanding it with an > > additional --depth when invoking the update-clone git submodule--helper > > is incorrect. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > I'm *reasonably* sure this is correct, but I am not sure how to test it. > > It's possible that it expands to "--depth --depth=N" and somehow this gets > > handled properly? > > I agree with your eyeballing of all the assignments to the variable, > and other references to $depth take either one of these two forms: > > git submodule--helper ... ${depth:+"$depth"} ... > git submodule--helper ... $depth ... > > As long as "git submodule ... --depth <depth> ..." gets called with > <depth> that does not have $IFS, either would work fine, but the > former is correct even when <depth> has problematic characters in it > and your patch uses that form, too). > > However. > > The command line parser for update_clone() stuffs --depth as a > string to suc.depth, and then the machinery ends up calling > prepare_to_clone_next_submodule() with such an instance of suc > (struct submodule_update_clone). Then that function just pushes the > suc->depth to an argv array used to spawn a "submodule--helper clone". > > So passing "--depth --depth=23" would be "correct", sadly, in that > codepath (I am not saying other codepaths would not call the same > prepare_to_clone_next_submodule() with "--depth 23", as I didn't > check, and if there is such a codepath, it would break). > Ok, so it's technically correct, but weird. I had trouble understanding it. > We may need to clean the mess up X-<. > Yea, I got confused looking at this code. Though if I recall, we were working towards rewriting it in C anyways (which is what the submodule--helper is doing). Thanks, Jake > > diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh > > index c7f58c5756f7..4e7fc8bf3652 100755 > > --- a/git-submodule.sh > > +++ b/git-submodule.sh > > @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ cmd_update() > > ${update:+--update "$update"} \ > > ${reference:+"$reference"} \ > > ${dissociate:+"--dissociate"} \ > > - ${depth:+--depth "$depth"} \ > > + ${depth:+"$depth"} \ > > $recommend_shallow \ > > $jobs \ > > -- \
