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>
A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
* sb/submodule-embed-gitdir:
worktree: initialize return value for submodule_uses_worktrees
submodule: add absorb-git-dir function
move connect_work_tree_and_git_dir to dir.h
worktree: check if a submodule uses worktrees
test-lib-functions.sh: teach test_commit -C <dir>
submodule helper: support super prefix
submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting
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>
A minor regression fix for "git submodule".
* sb/submodule-ignore-trailing-slash:
t0060: sidestep surprising path mangling results on Windows
submodule: ignore trailing slash in relative url
submodule: ignore trailing slash on superproject URL
Codepaths involved in interacting alternate object store have
been cleaned up.
* jk/alt-odb-cleanup:
alternates: use fspathcmp to detect duplicates
sha1_file: always allow relative paths to alternates
count-objects: report alternates via verbose mode
fill_sha1_file: write into a strbuf
alternates: store scratch buffer as strbuf
fill_sha1_file: write "boring" characters
alternates: use a separate scratch space
alternates: encapsulate alt->base munging
alternates: provide helper for allocating alternate
alternates: provide helper for adding to alternates list
link_alt_odb_entry: refactor string handling
link_alt_odb_entry: handle normalize_path errors
t5613: clarify "too deep" recursion tests
t5613: do not chdir in main process
t5613: whitespace/style cleanups
t5613: use test_must_fail
t5613: drop test_valid_repo function
t5613: drop reachable_via function
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>
Code clean-up with help from coccinelle tool continues.
* rs/cocci:
coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise
use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2
use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s", part 2
gitignore: ignore output files of coccicheck make target
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>
"git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
recent update, which has been corrected.
* jk/clone-recursive-progress:
clone: pass --progress decision to recursive submodules
Code cleanup.
* rs/cocci:
use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf, part 2
add coccicheck make target
contrib/coccinelle: fix semantic patch for oid_to_hex_r()
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>
The "unsigned char sha1[20]" to "struct object_id" conversion
continues. Notable changes in this round includes that ce->sha1,
i.e. the object name recorded in the cache_entry, turns into an
object_id.
It had merge conflicts with a few topics in flight (Christian's
"apply.c split", Dscho's "cat-file --filters" and Jeff Hostetler's
"status --porcelain-v2"). Extra sets of eyes double-checking for
mismerges are highly appreciated.
* bc/object-id:
builtin/reset: convert to use struct object_id
builtin/commit-tree: convert to struct object_id
builtin/am: convert to struct object_id
refs: add an update_ref_oid function.
sha1_name: convert get_sha1_mb to struct object_id
builtin/update-index: convert file to struct object_id
notes: convert init_notes to use struct object_id
builtin/rm: convert to use struct object_id
builtin/blame: convert file to use struct object_id
Convert read_mmblob to take struct object_id.
notes-merge: convert struct notes_merge_pair to struct object_id
builtin/checkout: convert some static functions to struct object_id
streaming: make stream_blob_to_fd take struct object_id
builtin: convert textconv_object to use struct object_id
builtin/cat-file: convert some static functions to struct object_id
builtin/cat-file: convert struct expand_data to use struct object_id
builtin/log: convert some static functions to use struct object_id
builtin/blame: convert struct origin to use struct object_id
builtin/apply: convert static functions to struct object_id
cache: convert struct cache_entry to use struct object_id
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>
"git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to
reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing
$path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it
learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
* sb/submodule-clone-rr:
clone: recursive and reference option triggers submodule alternates
clone: implement optional references
clone: clarify option_reference as required
clone: factor out checking for an alternate path
submodule--helper update-clone: allow multiple references
submodule--helper module-clone: allow multiple references
t7408: merge short tests, factor out testing method
t7408: modernize style
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>
A few updates to "git submodule update".
Use of "| wc -l" break with BSD variant of 'wc'.
* sb/submodule-update-dot-branch:
t7406: fix breakage on OSX
submodule update: allow '.' for branch value
submodule--helper: add remote-branch helper
submodule-config: keep configured branch around
submodule--helper: fix usage string for relative-path
submodule update: narrow scope of local variable
submodule update: respect depth in subsequent fetches
t7406: future proof tests with hard coded depth
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>
Internally we call the underscore version of relative_path, but externally
we present an API with no underscores.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
'git submodule--helper update-clone' has logic to retry failed clones
a second time. For this purpose, there is a list of submodules to clone,
and a second list that is filled with the submodules to retry. Within
these lists, the submodules are identified by an index as if both lists
were just appended.
This works nicely except when the second clone attempt fails as well. To
report an error, the identifying index must be adjusted by an offset so
that it can be used as an index into the second list. However, the
calculation uses the logical total length of the lists so that the result
always points one past the end of the second list.
Pick the correct index.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could
eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the
submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt.
* sb/submodule-clone-retry:
submodule update: continue when a clone fails
submodule--helper: initial clone learns retry logic
An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.
* sb/submodule-recommend-shallowness:
submodule update: learn `--[no-]recommend-shallow` option
submodule-config: keep shallow recommendation around
Each submodule that is attempted to be cloned, will be retried once in
case of failure after all other submodules were cloned. This helps to
mitigate ephemeral server failures and increases chances of a reliable
clone of a repo with hundreds of submodules immensely.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio pointed out `relative_path` was using bashisms via the
local variables. As the longer term goal is to rewrite most of the
submodule code in C, do it now.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 48308681 (2016-02-29, git submodule update: have a dedicated helper
for cloning), the helper communicated errors back only via exit code,
and dance with printing '#unmatched' in case of error was left to
git-submodule.sh as it uses the output of the helper and pipes it into
shell commands. This change makes the helper consistent by never
printing '#unmatched' in the helper but always handling these piping
issues in the actual shell script.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sometimes the history of a submodule is not considered important by
the projects upstream. To make it easier for downstream users, allow
a boolean field 'submodule.<name>.shallow' in .gitmodules, which can
be used to recommend whether upstream considers the history important.
This field is honored in the initial clone by default, it can be
ignored by giving the `--no-recommend-shallow` option.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An earlier addition of "sanitize_submodule_env" with 14111fc4 (git:
submodule honor -c credential.* from command line, 2016-02-29)
turned out to be a convoluted no-op; implement what it wanted to do
correctly, and stop filtering settings given via "git -c var=val".
* jk/submodule-c-credential:
submodule: stop sanitizing config options
submodule: use prepare_submodule_repo_env consistently
submodule--helper: move config-sanitizing to submodule.c
submodule: export sanitized GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS
t5550: break submodule config test into multiple sub-tests
t5550: fix typo in $HTTPD_URL
Update of "git submodule" to move pieces of logic to C continues.
* sb/submodule-init:
submodule init: redirect stdout to stderr
submodule--helper update-clone: abort gracefully on missing .gitmodules
submodule init: fail gracefully with a missing .gitmodules file
submodule: port init from shell to C
submodule: port resolve_relative_url from shell to C
The point of having a whitelist of command-line config
options to pass to submodules was two-fold:
1. It prevented obvious nonsense like using core.worktree
for multiple repos.
2. It could prevent surprise when the user did not mean
for the options to leak to the submodules (e.g.,
http.sslverify=false).
For case 1, the answer is mostly "if it hurts, don't do
that". For case 2, we can note that any such example has a
matching inverted surprise (e.g., a user who meant
http.sslverify=true to apply everywhere, but it didn't).
So this whitelist is probably not giving us any benefit, and
is already creating a hassle as people propose things to put
on it. Let's just drop it entirely.
Note that we still need to keep a special code path for
"prepare the submodule environment", because we still have
to take care to pass through $GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS (and
block the rest of the repo-specific environment variables).
We can do this easily from within the submodule shell
script, which lets us drop the submodule--helper option
entirely (and it's OK to do so because as a "--" program, it
is entirely a private implementation detail).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reroute the output of stdout to stderr as it is just informative
messages, not to be consumed by machines.
This should not regress any scripts that try to parse the
current output, as the output is already internationalized
and therefore unstable.
We want to init submodules from the helper for `submodule update`
in a later patch and the stdout output of said helper is consumed
by the parts of `submodule update` which are still written in shell.
So we have to be careful which messages are on stdout.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is no .gitmodules file availabe to initialize a submodule
from, `submodule_from_path` just returns NULL. We need to check for
that and abort gracefully.
When `git submodule update` was implemented in shell, this error out
with the warning
Submodule path '%s' not initialized
Maybe you want to use 'update --init'?
Replicate that behavior for now instead of crashing.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When there is no .gitmodules file availabe to initialize a submodule
from, `submodule_from_path` just returns NULL. We need to check for
that and abort gracefully. When `submodule init` was implemented in shell,
a missing .gitmodules file would result in an error message
No url found for submodule path '%s' in .gitmodules
Replicate that error message for now.
When the .gitmodules file is missing we can probably fail even earlier
for all of the submodules with an improved error message.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These functions should be used by any code which spawns a
submodule process, which may happen in submodule.c (e.g.,
for spawning fetch). Let's move them there and make them
public so that submodule--helper can continue to use them.
Since they're now public, let's also provide a basic overview
of their intended use.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed
the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real
repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has
been corrected.
* sb/submodule-helper-clone-regression-fix:
submodule--helper, module_clone: catch fprintf failure
submodule--helper: do not borrow absolute_path() result for too long
submodule--helper, module_clone: always operate on absolute paths
submodule--helper clone: create the submodule path just once
submodule--helper: fix potential NULL-dereference
recursive submodules: test for relative paths
By having the `submodule init` functionality in C, we can reference it
easier from other parts in the code in later patches. The code is split
up to have one function to initialize one submodule and a calling function
that takes care of the rest, such as argument handling and translating the
arguments to the paths of the submodules.
This is the first submodule subcommand that is fully converted to C
except for the usage string, so this is actually removing a call to
the `submodule--helper list` function, which is supposed to be used in
this transition. Instead we'll make a direct call to `module_list_compute`.
An explanation why we need to edit the prefixes in cmd_update in
git-submodule.sh in this patch:
By having no processing in the shell part, we need to convey the notion
of wt_prefix and prefix to the C parts, which former patches punted on
and did the processing of displaying path in the shell.
`wt_prefix` used to hold the path from the repository root to the current
directory, e.g. wt_prefix would be t/ if the user invoked the
`git submodule` command in ~/repo/t and ~repo is the GIT_DIR.
`prefix` used to hold the relative path from the repository root to the
operation, e.g. if you have recursive submodules, the shell script would
modify the `prefix` in each recursive step by adding the submodule path.
We will pass `wt_prefix` into the C helper via `git -C <dir>` as that
will setup git in the directory the user actually called git-submodule.sh
from. The `prefix` will be passed in via the `--prefix` option.
Having `prefix` and `wt_prefix` relative to the GIT_DIR of the
calling superproject is unfortunate with this patch as the C code doesn't
know about a possible recursion from a superproject via `submodule update
--init --recursive`.
To fix this, we change the meaning of `wt_prefix` to point to the current
project instead of the superproject and `prefix` to include any relative
paths issues in the superproject. That way `prefix` will become the leading
part for displaying paths and `wt_prefix` will be empty in recursive
calls for now.
The new notion of `wt_prefix` and `prefix` still allows us to reconstruct
the calling directory in the superproject by just traveling reverse of
`prefix`.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
