hashcpy with null_sha1 as the source is equivalent to hashclr.  In
addition to being simpler, using hashclr may give the compiler a chance
to optimize better.  Convert instances of hashcpy with the source
argument of null_sha1 to hashclr.

This transformation was implemented using the following semantic patch:

@@
expression E1;
@@
-hashcpy(E1, null_sha1);
+hashclr(E1);
Signed-off-by: Nbrian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

This keeps top dir a bit less crowded. And because these programs are
for testing purposes, it makes sense that they stay somewhere in t/
Signed-off-by: NNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

We remove the extracted functions and directly parse into and read out
of the cache. This allows us to have one unified way of accessing
submodule configuration values specific to single submodules. Regardless
whether we need to access a configuration from history or from the
worktree.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

In a superproject some commands need to interact with submodules. They
need to query values from the .gitmodules file either from the worktree
of from certain revisions. At the moment this is quite hard since a
caller would need to read the .gitmodules file from the history and then
parse the values. We want to provide an API for this so we have one
place to get values from .gitmodules from any revision (including the
worktree).

The API is realized as a cache which allows us to lazily read
.gitmodules configurations by commit into a runtime cache which can then
be used to easily lookup values from it. Currently only the values for
path or name are stored but it can be extended for any value needed.

It is expected that .gitmodules files do not change often between
commits. Thats why we lookup the .gitmodules sha1 from a commit and then
either lookup an already parsed configuration or parse and cache an
unknown one for each sha1. The cache is lazily build on demand for each
requested commit.

This cache can be used for all purposes which need knowledge about
submodule configurations. Example use cases are:

 * Recursive submodule checkout needs to lookup a submodule name from
   its path when a submodule first appears. This needs be done before
   this configuration exists in the worktree.

 * The implementation of submodule support for 'git archive' needs to
   lookup the submodule name to generate the archive when given a
   revision that is not checked out.

 * 'git fetch' when given the --recurse-submodules=on-demand option (or
   configuration) needs to lookup submodule names by path from the
   database rather than reading from the worktree. For new submodule it
   needs to lookup the name from its path to allow cloning new
   submodules into the .git folder so they can be checked out without
   any network interaction when the user does a checkout of that
   revision.
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>