Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] implement submodule config API for lookup of .gitmodules values

Jens Lehmann [off-list ref] writes:

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How does git-submodule access this information? It looks like it just
hits "git config -f .gitmodules" directly. Perhaps whatever interface is
designed should be suitable for its use here (and if there really is no
more interesting interface needed, then why is "git config" not good
enough for other callers?).

The git-submodule script doesn't need this and is fine using plain old
"git config", as by the time it is run the .gitmodules file is already
updated in the work tree. Heiko's series is about adding infrastructure
to allow builtins like checkout and friends to access the configuration
values from the .gitmodules file of the to-be-checked-out commit when
run with "--recurse-submodules". And yes, if we want to expose this
functionality to users or scripts some day "git config" looks like the
best place to do that to me too.

Did you mean "git submodule config"?