read-tree: add "--super-prefix" option, eliminate global

The "--super-prefix" option to "git" was initially added in [1] for
use with "ls-files"[2], and shortly thereafter "submodule--helper"[3]
and "grep"[4]. It wasn't until [5] that "read-tree" made use of it.

At the time [5] made sense, but since then we've made "ls-files"
recurse in-process in [6], "grep" in [7], and finally
"submodule--helper" in the preceding commits.

Let's also remove it from "read-tree", which allows us to remove the
option to "git" itself.

We can do this because the only remaining user of it is the submodule
API, which will now invoke "read-tree" with its new "--super-prefix"
option. It will only do so when the "submodule_move_head()" function
is called.

That "submodule_move_head()" function was then only invoked by
"read-tree" itself, but now rather than setting an environment
variable to pass "--super-prefix" between cmd_read_tree() we:

- Set a new "super_prefix" in "struct unpack_trees_options". The
  "super_prefixed()" function in "unpack-trees.c" added in [5] will now
  use this, rather than get_super_prefix() looking up the environment
  variable we set earlier in the same process.

- Add the same field to the "struct checkout", which is only needed to
  ferry the "super_prefix" in the "struct unpack_trees_options" all the
  way down to the "entry.c" callers of "submodule_move_head()".

  Those calls which used the super prefix all originated in
  "cmd_read_tree()". The only other caller is the "unlink_entry()"
  caller in "builtin/checkout.c", which now passes a "NULL".

1. 74866d7579 (git: make super-prefix option, 2016-10-07)
2. e77aa336f1 (ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-10-07)
3. 89c8626557 (submodule helper: support super prefix, 2016-12-08)
4. 0281e487fd (grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16)
5. 3d415425c7 (unpack-trees: support super-prefix option, 2017-01-17)
6. 188dce131f (ls-files: use repository object, 2017-06-22)
7. f9ee2fcdfa (grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository', 2017-08-02)

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-12-20 13:39:56 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent f5a6be9d54
commit 4002ec3dcf
15 changed files with 48 additions and 100 deletions

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@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ int cmd_read_tree(int argc, const char **argv, const char *cmd_prefix)
int prefix_set = 0;
struct lock_file lock_file = LOCK_INIT;
const struct option read_tree_options[] = {
OPT__SUPER_PREFIX(&opts.super_prefix),
OPT_CALLBACK_F(0, "index-output", NULL, N_("file"),
N_("write resulting index to <file>"),
PARSE_OPT_NONEG, index_output_cb),