On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 02:43:44PM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > Hi, > > this small patch series contains some improvements for ref storage > formats and their interaction with submodules. Notably: > > - Use the correct format for submodules in situations where the parent > repository uses a different ref storage format than the submodule. > > - Wire up `--ref-format=` for git-submodule(1), such that users can > explicitly use a different ref format for their submodules. > > - Propagate the `--ref-format=` flag of git-clone(1) into submodules > when using `--recursive`. > > The first three patches implement improvements for the above three > issues and introduce tests. The test did hit some memory leaks, which > get fixed by patches 3 to 6 such that the new test can be marked as leak > free. Just got a shower thought that this isn't quite there yet. Most importantly, I think we should default to the ref storage format of the parent submodule both when adding submodules and when cloning a submodule into a preexisting repository. I'll wait until tomorrow before addressing this though to ideally get some feedback until then. Patrick
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