Re: [RFC PATCH 01/10] config: make config_from_gitmodules generally useful

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Antonio Ospite [off-list ref] wrote:

The config_from_gitmodules() function is a good candidate for
a centralized point where to read the gitmodules configuration file.

It is very tempting to use that function. However it was introduced
specifically to not do that. ;)

See the series that was merged at 5aa0b6c506c (Merge branch
'bw/grep-recurse-submodules', 2017-08-22), specifically
f20e7c1ea24 (submodule: remove submodule.fetchjobs from
submodule-config parsing, 2017-08-02), where both
builtin/fetch as well as the submodule helper use the pattern to
read from the .gitmodules file va this function and then overlay it
with the read from config.

Add a repo argument to it to make the function more general, and adjust
the current callers in cmd_fetch and update-clone.

This could be a preparatory patch, but including it here is fine, too.

As a proof of the utility of the change, start using the function also
in repo_read_gitmodules which was basically doing the same operations.

I think they were separated for the reason outlined above, or what Brandon
said in his reply.

I think extending 'repo_read_gitmodules' makes sense, as that is
used everywhere for the loading of submodule configuration.