The same mechanism is used even for porting this submodule
subcommand, as used in the ported subcommands till now.
The function cmd_deinit in split up after porting into four
functions: module_deinit(), for_each_listed_submodule(),
deinit_submodule() and deinit_submodule_cb().
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Port the submodule subcommand 'sync' from shell to C using the same
mechanism as that used for porting submodule subcommand 'status'.
Hence, here the function cmd_sync() is ported from shell to C.
This is done by introducing four functions: module_sync(),
sync_submodule(), sync_submodule_cb() and print_default_remote().
The function print_default_remote() is introduced for getting
the default remote as stdout.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The message spans over 2 lines but the C concatenation does not add
the needed space between the two lines.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noel Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of the callers already pass the hash member of struct object_id, so
update them to pass a pointer to the struct directly,
This transformation was done with an update to declaration and
definition and the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- resolve_refdup(E1, E2, E3.hash, E4)
+ resolve_refdup(E1, E2, &E3, E4)
@@
expression E1, E2, E3, E4;
@@
- resolve_refdup(E1, E2, E3->hash, E4)
+ resolve_refdup(E1, E2, E3, E4)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This aims to make git-submodule 'status' a built-in. Hence, the function
cmd_status() is ported from shell to C. This is done by introducing
four functions: module_status(), submodule_status_cb(),
submodule_status() and print_status().
The function module_status() acts as the front-end of the subcommand.
It parses subcommand's options and then calls the function
module_list_compute() for computing the list of submodules. Then
this functions calls for_each_listed_submodule() looping through the
list obtained.
Then for_each_listed_submodule() calls submodule_status_cb() for each of
the submodule in its list. The function submodule_status_cb() calls
submodule_status() after passing appropriate arguments to the funciton.
Function submodule_status() is responsible for generating the status
each submodule it is called for, and then calls print_status().
Finally, the function print_status() handles the printing of submodule's
status.
Function set_name_rev() is also ported from git-submodule to the
submodule--helper builtin function compute_rev_name(), which now
generates the value of the revision name as required.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce function for_each_listed_submodule() and replace a loop
in module_init() with a call to it.
The new function will also be used in other parts of the
system in later patches.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Introduce function get_submodule_displaypath() to replace the code
occurring in submodule_init() for generating displaypath of the
submodule with a call to it.
This new function will also be used in other parts of the system
in later patches.
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This allows us to get rid of some write-only variables, among them seven
SHA1 buffers.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gcc 7 adds -Wimplicit-fallthrough, which can warn when a
switch case falls through to the next case. The general idea
is that the compiler can't tell if this was intentional or
not, so you should annotate any intentional fall-throughs as
such, leaving it to complain about any unannotated ones.
There's a GNU __attribute__ which can be used for
annotation, but of course we'd have to #ifdef it away on
non-gcc compilers. Gcc will also recognize
specially-formatted comments, which matches our current
practice. Let's extend that practice to all of the
unannotated sites (which I did look over and verify that
they were behaving as intended).
Ideally in each case we'd actually give some reasons in the
comment about why we're falling through, or what we're
falling through to. And gcc does support that with
-Wimplicit-fallthrough=2, which relaxes the comment pattern
matching to anything that contains "fallthrough" (or a
variety of spelling variants). However, this isn't the
default for -Wimplicit-fallthrough, nor for -Wextra. In the
name of simplicity, it's probably better for us to support
the default level, which requires "fallthrough" to be the
only thing in the comment (modulo some window dressing like
"else" and some punctuation; see the gcc manual for the
complete set of patterns).
This patch suppresses all warnings due to
-Wimplicit-fallthrough. We might eventually want to add that
to the DEVELOPER Makefile knob, but we should probably wait
until gcc 7 is more widely adopted (since earlier versions
will complain about the unknown warning type).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now that the submodule-config subsystem can lazily read the gitmodules
file we no longer need to explicitly pre-read the gitmodules by calling
'gitmodules_config()' so let's remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the last remaining caller of 'submodule_config()' as well as the
function itself.
With 'submodule_config()' being removed the submodule-config API can be
a little simpler as callers don't need to worry about whether or not
they need to overlay the repository's config on top of the
submodule-config. This also makes it more difficult to accidentally
add non-submodule specific configuration to the .gitmodules file.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't rely on overlaying the repository's config on top of the
submodule-config, instead query the repository's config directly for the
url and the update strategy configuration.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Don't rely on overlaying the repository's config on top of the
submodule-config, instead query the repository's config directly for the
branch field.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The '.gitmodules' file should only contain information pertinent to
configuring individual submodules (name to path mapping, URL where to
obtain the submodule, etc.) while other configuration like the number of
jobs to use when fetching submodules should be a part of the
repository's config.
Remove the 'submodule.fetchjobs' configuration option from the general
submodule-config parsing and instead rely on using the
'config_from_gitmodules()' in order to maintain backwards compatibility
with this config being placed in the '.gitmodules' file.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By declaring the task_cb parameter of type `void **`, the signature of
the get_next_task method suggests that the "task-specific cookie" can be
defined in that method, and the signatures of the start_failure and of
the task_finished methods declare that parameter of type `void *`,
suggesting that those methods are mere users of said cookie.
That convention makes a total lot of sense, because the tasks are pretty
much dead when one of the latter two methods is called: there would be
little use to reset that cookie at that point because nobody would be
able to see the change afterwards.
However, this is not what the code actually does. For all three methods,
it passes the *address* of pp->children[i].data.
As reasoned above, this behavior makes no sense. So let's change the
implementation to adhere to the convention suggested by the signatures.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 06bf4ad1d (push: propagate remote and refspec with
--recurse-submodules) push was taught how to propagate a refspec down to
submodules when the '--recurse-submodules' flag is given. The only refspecs
that are allowed to be propagated are ones which name a ref which exists
in both the superproject and the submodule, with the caveat that 'HEAD'
was disallowed.
This patch teaches push-check (the submodule helper which determines if
a refspec can be propagated to a submodule) to permit propagating 'HEAD'
if and only if the superproject and the submodule both have the same
named branch checked out and the submodule is not in a detached head
state.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The helper function utf8_fprintf(fp, ...) has exactly the same
effect to the output stream fp as fprintf(fp, ...) does, and the
only difference is that its return value counts in display columns
consumed (assuming that the payload is encoded in UTF-8), as opposed
to number of bytes.
There is no reason to call it unless the caller cares about its
return value.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert 'is_submodule_initialized()' to take a repository object and
while we're at it, lets rename the function to 'is_submodule_active()'
and remove the NEEDSWORK comment.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Normal users shouldn't ever call submodule--helper, but it
doesn't hurt to give them a normal usage message if they try
"-h".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since (ae8d08242 pathspec: pass directory indicator to
match_pathspec_item()) the path matching logic has been able to cope
with submodules without needing to strip off a trailing slash if a path
refers to a submodule.
Since stripping the slash is no longer necessary, remove the
PATHSPEC_STRIP_SUBMODULE_SLASH_CHEAP flag.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When we init a submodule, we try to die when it has no URL
defined:
url = xstrdup(sub->url);
if (!url)
die(...);
But that's clearly nonsense. xstrdup() will never return
NULL, and if sub->url is NULL, we'll segfault.
These two bits of code need to be flipped, so we check
sub->url before looking at it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the 'push-check' subcommand to submodule--helper which is used to
check if the provided remote and refspec can be used as part of a push
operation in the submodule.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When initializing a submodule set the submodule.<name>.active config to
true if the module hasn't already been configured to be active by some
other means (e.g. a pathspec set in submodule.active).
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach `submodule init` to initialize submodules which have been
configured to be active by setting 'submodule.active' with a pathspec.
Now if no path arguments are given and 'submodule.active' is configured,
`init` will initialize all submodules which have been configured to be
active. If no path arguments are given and 'submodule.active' is not
configured, then `init` will retain the old behavior of initializing all
submodules.
This allows users to record more complex patterns as it saves retyping
them whenever you invoke update.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Use the 'is_submodule_initialized()' helper to check for configured
submodules instead of manually checking for the submodule's URL in the
config.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The definition of which submodules are of interest by the user
is tied to the configuration submodule.<name>.url; when it is
set to a non-empty string, it is of interest. We'd want to be
able to later change this definition, but there are many places
that explicitly check this condition in the scripted Porcelain.
Introduce the "is-active" subcommand to "submodule--helper", so
that the exact definition of what submodule is of interest can
be centrally defined (and changed in later steps). In a few
patches that follow, this helper is used to replace the explicit
checks of the configuration variable in scripts.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove code fragment from module_clone that duplicates functionality
of connect_work_tree_and_git_dir in dir.c
Signed-off-by: Valery Tolstov <me@vtolstov.org>
Reviewed-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a submodule is initialized, the config variable 'submodule.<name>.url'
is set depending on the value of the same variable in the .gitmodules
file. When the URL indicates to be relative, then the url is computed
relative to its default remote. The default remote cannot be determined
accurately in all cases, such that it falls back to 'origin'.
The 'origin' remote may not exist, though. In that case we give up looking
for a suitable remote and we'll just assume it to be a local relative path.
This can be confusing to users as there is a lot of guessing involved,
which is not obvious to the user.
So in the corner case of assuming a local autoritative truth, warn the
user to lessen the confusion.
This behavior was introduced in 4d6893200 (submodule add: allow relative
repository path even when no url is set, 2011-06-06), which shared the
code with submodule-init and then ported to C in 3604242f08 (submodule:
port init from shell to C, 2016-04-15).
In case of submodule-add, this behavior makes sense in some use cases[1],
however for submodule-init there does not seem to be an immediate obvious
use case to fall back to a local submodule. However there might be, so
warn instead of die here.
While adding the warning, also clarify the behavior of relative URLs in
the documentation.
[1] e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8721984/git-ignore-files-for-public-repository-but-not-for-private
"store a secret locally in a submodule, with no intention to publish it"
Reported-by: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Apply the semantic patch for converting callers that duplicate the
result of absolute_path() to call absolute_pathdup() instead, which
avoids an extra string copy to a static buffer.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the submodule helper we did not correctly handled the display path
for initializing submodules when both the submodule is inside a
subdirectory as well as the command being invoked from a subdirectory
(as viewed from the superproject).
This was broken in 3604242f08, which was written at a time where
there was no super-prefix available, so we abused the --prefix option
for the same purpose and could get only one case right (the call from
within a subdirectory, not the submodule being in a subdirectory).
Test-provided-by: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a submodule has its git dir inside the working dir, the submodule
support for checkout that we plan to add in a later patch will fail.
Add functionality to migrate the git directory to be absorbed
into the superprojects git directory.
The newly added code in this patch is structured such that other areas of
Git can also make use of it. The code in the submodule--helper is a mere
wrapper and option parser for the function
`absorb_git_dir_into_superproject`, that takes care of embedding the
submodules git directory into the superprojects git dir. That function
makes use of the more abstract function for this use case
`relocate_gitdir`, which can be used by e.g. the worktree code eventually
to move around a git directory.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 31224cbdc7 (clone: recursive and reference option triggers
submodule alternates, 2016-08-17) a mechanism was added to
have submodules referenced. It did not address _nested_
submodules, however.
This patch makes all not just the root repository, but also
all submodules (recursively) have submodule.alternateLocation
and submodule.alternateErrorStrategy configured, making Git
search for possible alternates for nested submodules as well.
As submodule's alternate target does not end in .git/objects
(rather .git/modules/qqqqqq/objects), this alternate target
path restriction for in add_possible_reference_from_superproject
relates from "*.git/objects" to just */objects".
New tests have been added to t7408-submodule-reference.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly _Vi Shukela <vi0oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Just like main commands in Git, the submodule helper needs
access to the superproject prefix. Enable this in the git.c
but have its own fuse in the helper code by having a flag to
turn on the super prefix.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The alternate_object_database struct uses a single buffer
both for storing the path to the alternate, and as a scratch
buffer for forming object names. This is efficient (since
otherwise we'd end up storing the path twice), but it makes
life hard for callers who just want to know the path to the
alternate. They have to remember to stop reading after
"alt->name - alt->base" bytes, and to subtract one for the
trailing '/'.
It would be much simpler if they could simply access a
NUL-terminated path string. We could encapsulate this in a
function which puts a NUL in the scratch buffer and returns
the string, but that opens up questions about the lifetime
of the result. The first time another caller uses the
alternate, the scratch buffer may get other data tacked onto
it.
Let's instead just store the root path separately from the
scratch buffer. There aren't enough alternates being stored
for the duplicated data to matter for performance, and this
keeps things simple and safe for the callers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This is similar to the previous patch, though no user reported a bug and
I could not find a regressive behavior.
However it is a good thing to be strict on the output and for that we
always omit a trailing slash.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Before 63e95beb0 (2016-04-15, submodule: port resolve_relative_url from
shell to C), it did not matter if the superprojects URL had a trailing
slash or not. It was just chopped off as one of the first steps
(The "remoteurl=${remoteurl%/}" near the beginning of
resolve_relative_url(), which was removed in said commit).
When porting this to the C version, an off-by-one error was introduced
and we did not check the actual last character to be a slash, but the
NULL delimiter.
Reintroduce the behavior from before 63e95beb0, to ignore the trailing
slash.
Reported-by: <venv21@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace uses of strbuf_addf() for adding strings with more lightweight
strbuf_addstr() calls. This is shorter and makes the intent clearer.
bc57b9c0cc already converted three cases,
this patch covers two more.
A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for
new cases that might be introduced in the future.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When cloning with "--recursive", we'd generally expect
submodules to show progress reports if the main clone did,
too.
In older versions of git, this mostly worked out of the
box. Since we show progress by default when stderr is a tty,
and since the child clones inherit the parent stderr, then
both processes would come to the same decision by default.
If the parent clone was asked for "--quiet", we passed down
"--quiet" to the child. However, if stderr was not a tty and
the user specified "--progress", we did not propagate this
to the child.
That's a minor bug, but things got much worse when we
switched recently to submodule--helper's update_clone
command. With that change, the stderr of the child clones
are always connected to a pipe, and we never output
progress at all.
This patch teaches git-submodule and git-submodule--helper
how to pass down an explicit "--progress" flag when cloning.
The clone command then decides to propagate that flag based
on the cloning decision made earlier (which takes into
account isatty(2) of the parent process, existing --progress
or --quiet flags, etc). Since the child processes always run
without a tty on stderr, we don't have to worry about
passing an explicit "--no-progress"; it's the default for
them.
This fixes the recent loss of progress during recursive
clones. And as a bonus, it makes:
git clone --recursive --progress ... 2>&1 | cat
work by triggering progress explicitly in the children.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Replace uses of strbuf_addf() for adding strings with more lightweight
strbuf_addstr() calls. This makes the intent clearer and avoids
potential issues with printf format specifiers.
02962d3684 already converted six cases,
this patch covers eleven more.
A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for
new cases that might be introduced in the future.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id by applying the
following semantic patch and the object_id transforms from contrib, plus
the actual change to the struct:
@@
struct cache_entry E1;
@@
- E1.sha1
+ E1.oid.hash
@@
struct cache_entry *E1;
@@
- E1->sha1
+ E1->oid.hash
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When `--recursive` and `--reference` is given, it is reasonable to
expect that the submodules are created with references to the submodules
of the given alternate for the superproject.
An initial attempt to do this was presented to the mailing list, which
used flags that are passed around ("--super-reference") that instructed
the submodule clone to look for a reference in the submodules of the
referenced superproject. This is not well thought out, as any further
`submodule update` should also respect the initial setup.
When a new submodule is added to the superproject and the alternate
of the superproject does not know about that submodule yet, we rather
error out informing the user instead of being unclear if we did or did
not use a submodules alternate.
To solve this problem introduce new options that store the configuration
for what the user wanted originally.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow the user to pass in multiple references to update_clone.
Currently this is only internal API, but once the shell script is
replaced by a C version, this is needed.
This fixes an API bug between the shell script and the helper.
Currently the helper accepts "--reference" "--reference=foo"
as a OPT_STRING whose value happens to be "--reference=foo", and
then uses
if (suc->reference)
argv_array_push(&child->args, suc->reference)
where suc->reference _is_ "--reference=foo" when invoking the
underlying "git clone", it cancels out.
With this change we omit one of the "--reference" arguments when
passing references from the shell script to the helper.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow users to pass in multiple references, just as clone accepts multiple
references as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When developing another patch series I had a temporary state in
which git-clone would segfault, when the call was prepared in
prepare_to_clone_next_submodule. This lead to the call failing,
i.e. in `update_clone_task_finished` the task was scheduled to be
tried again. The second call to prepare_to_clone_next_submodule
would return 0, as the segfaulted clone did create the .git file
already, such that was not considered to need to be cloned again. I
was seeing the "BUG: ce was a submodule before?\n" message, which
was the correct behavior at the time as my local code was
buggy. When trying to debug this failure, I tried to use printing
messages into the strbuf that is passed around, but these messages
were never printed as the die(..) doesn't flush the `err` strbuf.
When implementing the die() in 665b35ecc (2016-06-09, "submodule--helper:
initial clone learns retry logic"), I considered this condition to be
a severe condition, which should lead to an immediate abort as we do not
trust ourselves any more. However the queued messages in `err` are valuable
so let's not toss them out by immediately dying, but a graceful return.
Another thing to note: The error message itself was misleading. A return
value of 0 doesn't indicate the passed in `ce` is not a submodule any more,
but just that we do not consider cloning it any more.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Initialize struct child_process variables already when they're defined.
That's shorter and saves a function call.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Gerrit has a "superproject subscription" feature[1], that triggers a
commit in a superproject that is subscribed to its submodules.
Conceptually this Gerrit feature can be done on the client side with
Git via (except for raciness, error handling etc):
while [ true ]; do
git -C <superproject> submodule update --remote --force
git -C <superproject> commit -a -m "Update submodules"
git -C <superproject> push
done
for each branch in the superproject. To ease the configuration in Gerrit
a special value of "." has been introduced for the submodule.<name>.branch
to mean the same branch as the superproject[2], such that you can create a
new branch on both superproject and the submodule and this feature
continues to work on that new branch.
Now we find projects in the wild with such a .gitmodules file.
The .gitmodules used in these Gerrit projects do not conform
to Gits understanding of how .gitmodules should look like.
This teaches Git to deal gracefully with this syntax as well.
The redefinition of "." does no harm to existing projects unaware of
this change, as "." is an invalid branch name in Git, so we do not
expect such projects to exist.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we want to enhance the logic for the branch selection.
Rewrite the current logic to be in C, so we can directly use C when
we enhance the logic.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Prathamesh Chavan