On 03/14, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Brandon Williams <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > When initializing a submodule set the submodule.<name>.active config to
> > true to indicate that the submodule is active.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> Hmph. When you do
>
> git clone --submodule-spec=lib/
>
> and resulting repository says "submodule.active = lib/", you are
> saying that you are interested in anything in "lib/", now or in the
> future--that is the point of 08/10.
>
> It is unclear what your desire would be for a submodule that was
> bound to somewhere in "lib/" in the superproject when you cloned
> when it later gets moved outside "lib/". With changes up to 08/10,
> that submodule will no longer be interesting, but with this 09/10,
> when recursing clone will activate it upon the initial clone, the
> submodule is explicitly marked as active by its name, so no matter
> where it gets moved later, it will remain to be interesting.
>
> I am not sure if that is a desired behaviour.
I'm going to blame my poor commit msg for this.
Essentially it would be nice if when a user explicitly says "I want to
init submodule b" that we obey and do just that. What this patch does
is allow for a user to do that and the "submodule.<name>.active" config
option will only be set to 'true' in the event that that the submodule
isn't already marked as being active/interesting by some other means.
So if we did
git clone --submodule-spec=lib/
then each module under 'lib/' won't have their submodule.<name>.active
config set since submodule.active=lib/ already encompasses them.
But if no submodule-spec was given then it would default to all
submodules and set every submodule's submodule.<name>.active config to
true.
I'll add a few tests to illustrate this.
>
> > builtin/submodule--helper.c | 7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> > index a3acc9e4c..b669ed031 100644
> > --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> > +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
> > @@ -361,6 +361,13 @@ static void init_submodule(const char *path, const
> > char *prefix, int quiet)
> > die(_("No url found for submodule path '%s' in .gitmodules"),
> > displaypath);
> >
> > + /* Set active flag for the submodule being initialized */
> > + if (!is_submodule_initialized(path)) {
> > + strbuf_reset(&sb);
> > + strbuf_addf(&sb, "submodule.%s.active", sub->name);
> > + git_config_set_gently(sb.buf, "true");
> > + }
> > +
> > /*
> > * Copy url setting when it is not set yet.
> > * To look up the url in .git/config, we must not fall back to
--
Brandon Williams
