Merge 'hv/submodule-config' to 'sb/submodule-helper'

* hv/submodule-config:
  submodule: allow erroneous values for the fetchRecurseSubmodules option
  submodule: use new config API for worktree configurations
  submodule: extract functions for config set and lookup
  submodule: implement a config API for lookup of .gitmodules values

Author: gitster

.gitignore

@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@
 /test-sha1-array
 /test-sigchain
 /test-string-list
+/test-submodule-config
 /test-subprocess
 /test-svn-fe
 /test-urlmatch-normalization

Documentation/technical/api-submodule-config.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+submodule config cache API
+==========================
+
+The submodule config cache API allows to read submodule
+configurations/information from specified revisions. Internally
+information is lazily read into a cache that is used to avoid
+unnecessary parsing of the same .gitmodule files. Lookups can be done by
+submodule path or name.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+To initialize the cache with configurations from the worktree the caller
+typically first calls `gitmodules_config()` to read values from the
+worktree .gitmodules and then to overlay the local git config values
+`parse_submodule_config_option()` from the config parsing
+infrastructure.
+
+The caller can look up information about submodules by using the
+`submodule_from_path()` or `submodule_from_name()` functions. They return
+a `struct submodule` which contains the values. The API automatically
+initializes and allocates the needed infrastructure on-demand. If the
+caller does only want to lookup values from revisions the initialization
+can be skipped.
+
+If the internal cache might grow too big or when the caller is done with
+the API, all internally cached values can be freed with submodule_free().
+
+Data Structures
+---------------
+
+`struct submodule`::
+
+	This structure is used to return the information about one
+	submodule for a certain revision. It is returned by the lookup
+	functions.
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+`void submodule_free()`::
+
+	Use these to free the internally cached values.
+
+`int parse_submodule_config_option(const char *var, const char *value)`::
+
+	Can be passed to the config parsing infrastructure to parse
+	local (worktree) submodule configurations.
+
+`const struct submodule *submodule_from_path(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *path)`::
+
+	Lookup values for one submodule by its commit_sha1 and path.
+
+`const struct submodule *submodule_from_name(const unsigned char *commit_sha1, const char *name)`::
+
+	The same as above but lookup by name.
+
+If given the null_sha1 as commit_sha1 the local configuration of a
+submodule will be returned (e.g. consolidated values from local git
+configuration and the .gitmodules file in the worktree).
+
+For an example usage see test-submodule-config.c.

Makefile

@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sha1
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sha1-array
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sigchain
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-string-list
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-submodule-config
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-subprocess
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-svn-fe
 TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-urlmatch-normalization
@@ -785,6 +786,7 @@ LIB_OBJS += strbuf.o
 LIB_OBJS += streaming.o
 LIB_OBJS += string-list.o
 LIB_OBJS += submodule.o
+LIB_OBJS += submodule-config.o
 LIB_OBJS += symlinks.o
 LIB_OBJS += tag.o
 LIB_OBJS += trace.o

builtin/checkout.c

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include "xdiff-interface.h"
 #include "ll-merge.h"
 #include "resolve-undo.h"
+#include "submodule-config.h"
 #include "submodule.h"
 
 static const char * const checkout_usage[] = {

builtin/fetch.c

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "sigchain.h"
+#include "submodule-config.h"
 #include "submodule.h"
 #include "connected.h"
 #include "argv-array.h"

diff.c

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include "utf8.h"
 #include "userdiff.h"
 #include "sigchain.h"
+#include "submodule-config.h"
 #include "submodule.h"
 #include "ll-merge.h"
 #include "string-list.h"