The discussion in [1] realized that '.' is a faulty suggestion as
there is a corner case where it fails:

> "submodule deinit ." may have "worked" in the sense that you would
> have at least one path in your tree and avoided this "nothing
> matches" most of the time.  It would have still failed with the
> exactly same error if run in an empty repository, i.e.
>
>        $ E=/var/tmp/x/empty && rm -fr "$E" && mkdir -p "$E" && cd "$E"
>        $ git init
>        $ rungit v2.6.6 submodule deinit .
>        error: pathspec '.' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>        Did you forget to 'git add'?
>        $ >file && git add file
>        $ rungit v2.6.6 submodule deinit .
>        $ echo $?
>        0

So instead of a path spec add a parameter '--all' to deinit all submodules
and add a test to check for the corner case of an empty repository.

The code only needs to learn about the '--all' parameter and doesn't
require further changes as `git submodule--helper list "$@"` will list
all submodules in case of "$@" being empty.

[1] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289535

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com>
---

Changes since v2:
* dedented section in documentation for --all, as it broke asciidoc.
* Using a consistent usage string in git-modules.sh (both at top as well as in
  the die message) as well as in the documentation.

Jonathan writes:
>> It is a fix for a corner case, but it is renaming the switch, so I would
>> expect that we'd wait for a new version at least.
> The bug was that the documentation and error message gave advice that
> didn't work.

By having the old way untested, we do not give guarantees any more about the '.'
case, which may be used in scripts and break, no?

Thanks,
Stefan

 Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 12 +++++++++++-
 git-submodule.sh                | 14 +++++++++++---
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh      | 14 +++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 1572f05..24d7197 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
              [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> 
[<path>]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>...
+'git submodule' [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (-a|--all|[--] <path>...)
 'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch]
              [-f|--force] [--rebase|--merge] [--reference <repository>]
              [--depth <depth>] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ deinit::
        you really want to remove a submodule from the repository and commit
        that use linkgit:git-rm[1] instead.
 +
+To unregister all submodules use `--all` with no path spec. In
+version 2.8 and prior, you were advised to give '.' to unregister
+all submodules. This may continue to work in the future, but as the
+path spec '.' may include regular files, this could stop working.
++
 If `--force` is specified, the submodule's work tree will be removed even if
 it contains local modifications.
 
@@ -247,6 +252,11 @@ OPTIONS
 --quiet::
        Only print error messages.
 
+-a::
+--all::
+       This option is only valid for the deinit command. Unregister all
+       submodules in the work tree.
+
 -b::
 --branch::
        Branch of repository to add as submodule.
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 43c68de..6dabb56 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dashless=$(basename "$0" | sed -e 's/-/ /')
 USAGE="[--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference 
<repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-   or: $dashless [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] [--] <path>...
+   or: $dashless [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (-a|--all| [--] <path>...)
    or: $dashless [--quiet] update [--init] [--remote] [-N|--no-fetch] 
[-f|--force] [--checkout|--merge|--rebase] [--reference <repository>] 
[--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] summary [--cached|--files] [--summary-limit <n>] 
[commit] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
@@ -521,6 +521,7 @@ cmd_init()
 cmd_deinit()
 {
        # parse $args after "submodule ... deinit".
+       deinit_all=
        while test $# -ne 0
        do
                case "$1" in
@@ -530,6 +531,9 @@ cmd_deinit()
                -q|--quiet)
                        GIT_QUIET=1
                        ;;
+               -a|--all)
+                       deinit_all=t
+                       ;;
                --)
                        shift
                        break
@@ -544,9 +548,13 @@ cmd_deinit()
                shift
        done
 
-       if test $# = 0
+       if test -n "$deinit_all" && test "$#" -ne 0
+       then
+               die "$(eval_gettext "usage: $dashless [--quiet] deinit 
[-f|--force] (--all | [--] <path>...)")"
+       fi
+       if test $# = 0 && test -z "$deinit_all"
        then
-               die "$(eval_gettext "Use '.' if you really want to deinitialize 
all submodules")"
+               die "$(eval_gettext "Use '--all' if you really want to 
deinitialize all submodules")"
        fi
 
        git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" |
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index e1abd19..6e28ea5 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ subcommands of git submodule.
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
+test_expect_success 'submodule deinit works on empty repository' '
+       git submodule deinit --all
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'setup - initial commit' '
        >t &&
        git add t &&
@@ -858,7 +862,7 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule deinit works on repository 
without submodules' '
                >file &&
                git add file &&
                git commit -m "repo should not be empty"
-               git submodule deinit .
+               git submodule deinit --all
        )
 '
 
@@ -887,12 +891,12 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule deinit from subdirectory' '
        rmdir init
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'submodule deinit . deinits all initialized submodules' '
+test_expect_success 'submodule deinit --all deinits all initialized 
submodules' '
        git submodule update --init &&
        git config submodule.example.foo bar &&
        git config submodule.example2.frotz nitfol &&
        test_must_fail git submodule deinit &&
-       git submodule deinit . >actual &&
+       git submodule deinit --all >actual &&
        test -z "$(git config --get-regexp "submodule\.example\.")" &&
        test -z "$(git config --get-regexp "submodule\.example2\.")" &&
        test_i18ngrep "Cleared directory .init" actual &&
@@ -958,11 +962,11 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule deinit is silent when used 
on an uninitialized su
        git submodule deinit init >actual &&
        test_i18ngrep ! "Submodule .example. (.*) unregistered for path .init" 
actual &&
        test_i18ngrep "Cleared directory .init" actual &&
-       git submodule deinit . >actual &&
+       git submodule deinit --all >actual &&
        test_i18ngrep ! "Submodule .example. (.*) unregistered for path .init" 
actual &&
        test_i18ngrep "Submodule .example2. (.*) unregistered for path 
.example2" actual &&
        test_i18ngrep "Cleared directory .init" actual &&
-       git submodule deinit . >actual &&
+       git submodule deinit --all >actual &&
        test_i18ngrep ! "Submodule .example. (.*) unregistered for path .init" 
actual &&
        test_i18ngrep ! "Submodule .example2. (.*) unregistered for path 
.example2" actual &&
        test_i18ngrep "Cleared directory .init" actual &&
-- 
2.8.0.rc4.9.g9db9a47

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