submodule: stop sanitizing config options

The point of having a whitelist of command-line config
options to pass to submodules was two-fold:

  1. It prevented obvious nonsense like using core.worktree
     for multiple repos.

  2. It could prevent surprise when the user did not mean
     for the options to leak to the submodules (e.g.,
     http.sslverify=false).

For case 1, the answer is mostly "if it hurts, don't do
that". For case 2, we can note that any such example has a
matching inverted surprise (e.g., a user who meant
http.sslverify=true to apply everywhere, but it didn't).

So this whitelist is probably not giving us any benefit, and
is already creating a hassle as people propose things to put
on it. Let's just drop it entirely.

Note that we still need to keep a special code path for
"prepare the submodule environment", because we still have
to take care to pass through $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS (and
block the rest of the repo-specific environment variables).

We can do this easily from within the submodule shell
script, which lets us drop the submodule--helper option
entirely (and it's OK to do so because as a "--" program, it
is entirely a private implementation detail).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 16d6432f91..89250f0b78 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -260,22 +260,6 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int module_sanitize_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
-{
-	struct strbuf sanitized_config = STRBUF_INIT;
-
-	if (argc > 1)
-		usage(_("git submodule--helper sanitize-config"));
-
-	git_config_from_parameters(sanitize_submodule_config, &sanitized_config);
-	if (sanitized_config.len)
-		printf("%s\n", sanitized_config.buf);
-
-	strbuf_release(&sanitized_config);
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
 struct cmd_struct {
 	const char *cmd;
 	int (*fn)(int, const char **, const char *);
@@ -285,7 +269,6 @@ static struct cmd_struct commands[] = {
 	{"list", module_list},
 	{"name", module_name},
 	{"clone", module_clone},
-	{"sanitize-config", module_sanitize_config},
 };
 
 int cmd_submodule__helper(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)