Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > `get_default_remote()` retrieves the name of a remote by resolving the > refs from of the current repository's ref store. > > Thus in order to use it for retrieving the remote name of a submodule, > we have to start a new subprocess which runs from the submodule > directory. > > Let's instead introduce a function called `repo_get_default_remote()` > which takes any repository object and retrieves the remote accordingly. > > `get_default_remote()` is then defined as a call to > `repo_get_default_remote()` with 'the_repository' passed to it. > > Now that we have `repo_get_default_remote()`, we no longer have to start > a subprocess that called `submodule--helper get-default-remote` from > within the submodule directory. > > So let's make a function called `get_default_remote_submodule()` which > takes a submodule path, and returns the default remote for that > submodule, all within the same process. > > We can now use this function to save an unnecessary subprocess spawn in > `sync_submodule()`, and also in the next patch, which will require this > functionality. > > Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@xxxxxxxxx> > Mentored-by: Shourya Shukla <periperidip@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Atharva Raykar <raykar.ath@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/submodule--helper.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) The above covers a lot of stuff, because this change does a lot of things ;-) The commit could be split into 3 logically distinct phases (two independent, the third depends on the other two): - extract the part that uses the run-command() API to run "submodule--helper print-default-remote" from sync_submodule() and create get_default_remote_submodule() function out of it. - move bulk of get_default_remote() into repo_get_default_remote() and reimplement the former as a thin wrapper of the latter. - using the repo_get_default_remote() created in the second step, update the get_default_remote_submodule() created in the first step to work in-process without a subprocess. but a bit larger granularity used here is probably OK. > diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c > index 97512ccf0b..f6c4fc349b 100644 > --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c > +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c > @@ -29,11 +29,10 @@ > typedef void (*each_submodule_fn)(const struct cache_entry *list_item, > void *cb_data); > > -static char *get_default_remote(void) > +static char *repo_get_default_remote(struct repository *repo, const char *refname) > { > char *dest = NULL, *ret; > struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; > - const char *refname = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, NULL, NULL); > > if (!refname) > die(_("No such ref: %s"), "HEAD"); > @@ -46,7 +45,7 @@ static char *get_default_remote(void) > die(_("Expecting a full ref name, got %s"), refname); > > strbuf_addf(&sb, "branch.%s.remote", refname); > - if (git_config_get_string(sb.buf, &dest)) > + if (repo_config_get_string(repo, sb.buf, &dest)) > ret = xstrdup("origin"); > else > ret = dest; > @@ -55,6 +54,25 @@ static char *get_default_remote(void) > return ret; > } > > +static char *get_default_remote_submodule(const char *module_path) > +{ > + const char *refname; > + const struct submodule *sub; > + struct repository subrepo; > + > + refname = refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(get_submodule_ref_store(module_path), > + "HEAD", 0, NULL, NULL); > + sub = submodule_from_path(the_repository, null_oid(), module_path); > + repo_submodule_init(&subrepo, the_repository, sub); > + return repo_get_default_remote(&subrepo, refname); > +} > + > +static char *get_default_remote(void) > +{ > + const char *refname = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, NULL, NULL); > + return repo_get_default_remote(the_repository, refname); > +} > + > static int print_default_remote(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > { > char *remote; > @@ -1369,7 +1387,6 @@ static void sync_submodule(const char *path, const char *prefix, > char *remote_key = NULL; > char *sub_origin_url, *super_config_url, *displaypath; > struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT; > - struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT; > char *sub_config_path = NULL; > > if (!is_submodule_active(the_repository, path)) > @@ -1418,14 +1435,9 @@ static void sync_submodule(const char *path, const char *prefix, > if (!is_submodule_populated_gently(path, NULL)) > goto cleanup; > > - prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array); > - cp.git_cmd = 1; > - cp.dir = path; > - strvec_pushl(&cp.args, "submodule--helper", > - "print-default-remote", NULL); > - > strbuf_reset(&sb); > - if (capture_command(&cp, &sb, 0)) > + strbuf_addstr(&sb, get_default_remote_submodule(path)); > + if (!sb.buf) > die(_("failed to get the default remote for submodule '%s'"), > path); There is this line after the post context presented here: strbuf_strip_suffix(&sb, "\n"); remote_key = xstrfmt("remote.%s.url", sb.buf); The LF was expected to come from the capture_command(), but it no longer is needed after get_default_remote_submodule() switches to use the in-process method. In fact, the use of sb for the purpose of forming remote_key is not needed. tmp = get_default_remote_submodule(path); if (!tmp) die(_("failed to get...")); remote_key = xstrfmt("remote.%s.url", tmp); free(tmp); Yes, I think the new code leaks, and makes it impossible not to leak, the returned value from get_default_remote_submodule() by passing the call as an argument to strbuf_addstr(). Both of the two bugs pointed out here would have been easier to spot if the commits were smaller, I would think, but as I said, a bit larger granularity used here was still manageable. Thanks.