On 02/09 02:05, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > On Mon, 2020-08-31 at 18:34 +0530, Shourya Shukla wrote: > > On 31/08 01:28, Kaartic Sivaraam wrote: > > > > This is what I have done finally: > > --- > > if (read_cache() < 0) > > die(_("index file corrupt")); > > > > if (!force) { > > if (cache_file_exists(path, strlen(path), ignore_case) || > > cache_dir_exists(path, strlen(path))) > > die(_("'%s' already exists in the index"), path); > > } else { > > int cache_pos = cache_name_pos(path, strlen(path)); > > struct cache_entry *ce = the_index.cache[cache_pos]; > > if (cache_pos >= 0 && !S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode)) > > die(_("'%s' already exists in the index and is not a " > > "submodule"), path); > > } > > --- > > > > I did not put the 'cache_pos >= 0' at the start since I thought that it > > will unnecessarily increase an indentation level. Since we are using > > 'cache_{file,dir}_exists' in the first check and 'cache_name_pos()' in > > the second, the placement of check at another indentation level would be > > unnecessary. What do you think about this? > > > > Interestingly. 'cache_dir_exists' seems to work as expected only when > the global ignore_case whose value seems to depend on core.ignorecase. > So, we can't just rely on 'cache_dir_exists to identify a directory > that has tracked contents. Apparently, the 'directory_exists_in_index' > in 'dir.c' seems to have the code that we want here (which is also the > only user of 'index_dir_exists'; the function for which > 'cache_dir_exists' is a convenience wrapper. I think both 'cache_{dir,file}_exists()' depend on 'core.ignorecase' though I am not able to confirm this for 'cache_dir_exists()'. Where exactly does this happen for the function? The function you mention seems perfect to me, though, we will also have to make the enum 'exist_status' visible. Will that be fine? The final output will be: --- if (!force) { if (directory_exists_in_index(&the_index, path, strlen(path))) die(_("'%s' already exists in the index"), path); } else { int cache_pos = cache_name_pos(path, strlen(path)); struct cache_entry *ce = the_index.cache[cache_pos]; if (cache_pos >= 0 && !S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode)) die(_("'%s' already exists in the index and is not a " "submodule"), path); } --- And obviously an extra commit changing the visibility of the function and the enum. > > > This is more close to what the shell version did but misses one case > > > which might or might not be covered by the test suite[1]. The case when > > > path is a directory that has tracked contents. In the shell version we > > > would get: > > > > > > $ git submodule add ../git-crypt/ builtin > > > 'builtin' already exists in the index > > > $ git submodule add --force ../git-crypt/ builtin > > > 'builtin' already exists in the index and is not a submodule > > > > > > In the C version with the above snippet we get: > > > > > > $ git submodule add --force ../git-crypt/ builtin > > > fatal: 'builtin' does not have a commit checked out > > > $ git submodule add ../git-crypt/ builtin > > > fatal: 'builtin' does not have a commit checked out > > > > > > That's not appropriate and should be fixed. I believe we could do > > > something with `cache_dir_exists` to fix this. > > > > > > > > > Footnote > > > === > > > > > > [1]: If it's not covered already, it might be a good idea to add a test > > > for the above case. > > > > Like Junio said, we do not care if it is a file or a directory of any > > sorts, we will give the error if it already exists. Therefore, even if > > it is an untracked or a tracked one, it should not matter to us. Hence > > testing for it may not be necessary is what I feel. Why should we test > > it? > > I'm guessing you misunderstood. A few things: > > - We only care about tracked contents for the case in hand. > > - Identifying whether a given path corresponds to a directory > which has tracked contents is tricky. Neither 'cache_name_pos' > nor 'cache_file_exists' handle this. 'cache_dir_exists' is also > not very useful as mentioned above. > > So, we do have to take care when handling that case as Junio pointed > out. I still do not understand this case. Let's say this was our superproject: .gitmodules .git/ a.txt dir1/ And we did: $ git submodule add <url> dir1/ Now, at this point, how does it matter if 'dir1/' has tracked content or not right? A directory exists with that name and now we do not add the SM to that path.