Re: [PATCH] convert any hard coded .gitmodules file string to the MACRO

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

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  @@ -233,18 +233,18 @@ void gitmodules_config(void)
                strbuf_addstr(&gitmodules_path, "/.gitmodules");

Did you mean to also change "/.gitmodules" ??

Goog point. We should pick that up as well. However as we do not have
a macro for that, we'd have to have 2 calls to strbuf API

    strbuf_addch(&sb, '/');
    strbuf_addstr(&sb, GITMODULES);

Ehh, doesn't string literal concatenation work here?  I.e. something
like:

    strbuf_addstr(&gitmodules_path, "/" GITMODULES_FILE);

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                if (pos < 0) { /* .gitmodules not found or isn't merged */
                        pos = -1 - pos;
                        if (active_nr > pos) {  /* there is a .gitmodules
*/

It might also be nice to change the literals in the comments to
use the macro.

The reason you want this patch is not like we want to make it easy
to rename the file to ".gitprojects" later, right?  The patch is
about avoiding misspelled string constant, like "/.gitmdoules",
without getting caught by the compiler, no?

Assuming that I am correctly guessing the intention, I think it is a
bad idea to rename these in the comments.