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| author |  Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> | 2015-08-17 17:21:59 -0700 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-08-19 11:43:10 -0700 |
| commit | 851e18c3859ad0f9f7e91fdb4d6cce5a8272420b (patch) | |
| tree | 174141bad5af8da81d0eb6272584eadfa1906c74 /Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | |
| parent | submodule: extract functions for config set and lookup (diff) | |
| download | tgif-851e18c3859ad0f9f7e91fdb4d6cce5a8272420b.tar.xz | |
submodule: use new config API for worktree configurations
We remove the extracted functions and directly parse into and read out
of the cache. This allows us to have one unified way of accessing
submodule configuration values specific to single submodules. Regardless
whether we need to access a configuration from history or from the
worktree.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt index 1fbde41bf6..941fa178dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt @@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ submodule path or name. Usage ----- +To initialize the cache with configurations from the worktree the caller +typically first calls `gitmodules_config()` to read values from the +worktree .gitmodules and then to overlay the local git config values +`parse_submodule_config_option()` from the config parsing +infrastructure. + The caller can look up information about submodules by using the `submodule_from_path()` or `submodule_from_name()` functions. They return a `struct submodule` which contains the values. The API automatically -initializes and allocates the needed infrastructure on-demand. +initializes and allocates the needed infrastructure on-demand. If the +caller does only want to lookup values from revisions the initialization +can be skipped. If the internal cache might grow too big or when the caller is done with the API, all internally cached values can be freed with submodule_free(). @@ -34,6 +42,11 @@ Functions Use these to free the internally cached values. +`int parse_submodule_config_option(const char *var, const char *value)`:: + + Can be passed to the config parsing infrastructure to parse + local (worktree) submodule configurations. + `const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *path)`:: Lookup values for one submodule by its commit_sha1 and path. @@ -42,4 +55,8 @@ Functions The same as above but lookup by name. +If given the null_sha1 as commit_sha1 the local configuration of a +submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git +configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree). + For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c. |