On 08/15, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Stefan Beller wrote:

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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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All at the cost of recording a little configuration somewhere.  If we
want to decrease the configuration, we can avoid recording it there in
the easy cases (e.g. when name == gitdirname).  That's "just" an
optimization.

Sounds good, but gerrit for example would not take advantage of such
optimisation as they have slashes in their submodules. :-(
I wonder if we can optimize further and keep slashes if there is
no conflict (as then name == gitdirname, so it can be optimized).

One possibility would be to treat gsub("/", "%2f") as another of the
easy cases.

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And then we have the ability later to handle all the edge cases we
haven't handled yet today:

- sharding when the number of submodules is too large
- case-insensitive filesystems
- path name length limits
- different sets of filesystem-special characters

Sane?

Seems like a sensible thing to do. Let me work up some patches to
implement this using config primarily and these other schemes as
fallbacks.

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I'll keep thinking about it.

Thanks.

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FYI: the reduction in configuration was just sent out.

https://public-inbox.org/git/20180816023100.161626-1-sbeller@google.com/
for those following along.

Ciao,
Jonathan

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Brandon Williams