user/sven/git.git/submodule.h, branch v1.7.6.3

fetch/pull: Add the 'on-demand' value to the --recurse-submodules option

2011-03-09T21:10:35Z

Until now the --recurse-submodules option could only be used to either fetch all populated submodules recursively or to disable recursion completely. As fetch and pull now by default just fetch those submodules for which new commits have been fetched in the superproject, a command line option to enforce that behavior is needed to be able to override configuration settings. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

fetch/pull: recurse into submodules when necessary

2011-03-09T21:10:35Z

To be able to access all commits of populated submodules referenced by the superproject it is sufficient to only then let "git fetch" recurse into a submodule when the new commits fetched in the superproject record new commits for it. Having these commits present is extremely useful when using the "--submodule" option to "git diff" (which is what "git gui" and "gitk" do since 1.6.6), as all submodule commits needed for creating a descriptive output can be accessed. Also merging submodule commits (added in 1.7.3) depends on the submodule commits in question being present to work. Last but not least this enables disconnected operation when using submodules, as all commits necessary for a successful "git submodule update -N" will have been fetched automatically. So we choose this mode as the default for fetch and pull. Before a new or changed ref from upstream is updated in update_local_ref() "git rev-list --not --branches --remotes" is used to determine all newly fetched commits. These are then walked and diffed against their parent(s) to see if a submodule has been changed. If that is the case, its path is stored to be fetched after the superproject fetch is completed. Using the "--recurse-submodules" or the "--no-recurse-submodules" option disables the examination of the fetched refs because the result will be ignored anyway. There is currently no infrastructure for storing deleted and new submodules in the .git directory of the superproject. That's why fetch and pull for now only fetch submodules that are already checked out and are not renamed. In t7403 the "--no-recurse-submodules" argument had to be added to "git pull" to avoid failure because of the moved upstream submodule repo. Thanks-to: Jonathan Nieder Thanks-to: Heiko Voigt Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Add the 'fetch.recurseSubmodules' config setting

2010-11-12T23:06:03Z

This new boolean option can be used to override the default for "git fetch" and "git pull", which is to not recurse into populated submodules and fetch all new commits there too. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

fetch/pull: Add the --recurse-submodules option

2010-11-12T23:06:03Z

Until now you had to call "git submodule update" (without -N|--no-fetch option) or something like "git submodule foreach git fetch" to fetch new commits in populated submodules from their remote. This could lead to "(commits not present)" messages in the output of "git diff --submodule" (which is used by "git gui" and "gitk") after fetching or pulling new commits in the superproject and is an obstacle for implementing recursive checkout of submodules. Also "git submodule update" cannot fetch changes when disconnected, so it was very easy to forget to fetch the submodule changes before disconnecting only to discover later that they are needed. This patch adds the "--recurse-submodules" option to recursively fetch each populated submodule from the url configured in the .git/config of the submodule at the end of each "git fetch" or during "git pull" in the superproject. The submodule paths are taken from the index. The hidden option "--submodule-prefix" is added to "git fetch" to be able to print out the full paths of nested submodules. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'hv/submodule-find-ff-merge'

2010-08-22T06:27:59Z

* hv/submodule-find-ff-merge: Implement automatic fast-forward merge for submodules setup_revisions(): Allow walking history in a submodule Teach ref iteration module about submodules Conflicts: submodule.c

Submodules: Use "ignore" settings from .gitmodules too for diff and status

2010-08-09T16:11:44Z

The .gitmodules file is parsed for "submodule..ignore" entries before looking for them in .git/config. Thus settings found in .git/config will override those from .gitmodules, thereby allowing the local developer to ignore settings given by the remote side while also letting upstream set defaults for those users who don't have special needs. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config option for diff and status

2010-08-09T16:01:52Z

The new "ignore" config option controls the default behavior for "git status" and the diff family. It specifies under what circumstances they consider submodules as modified and can be set separately for each submodule. The command line option "--ignore-submodules=" has been extended to accept the new parameter "none" for both status and diff. Users that chose submodules to get rid of long work tree scanning times might want to set the "dirty" option for those submodules. This brings back the pre 1.7.0 behavior, where submodule work trees were never scanned for modifications. By using "--ignore-submodules=none" on the command line the status and diff commands can be told to do a full scan. This option can be set to the following values (which have the same name and meaning as for the "--ignore-submodules" option of status and diff): "all": All changes to the submodule will be ignored. "dirty": Only differences of the commit recorded in the superproject and the submodules HEAD will be considered modifications, all changes to the work tree of the submodule will be ignored. When using this value, the submodule will not be scanned for work tree changes at all, leading to a performance benefit on large submodules. "untracked": Only untracked files in the submodules work tree are ignored, a changed HEAD and/or modified files in the submodule will mark it as modified. "none" (which is the default): Either untracked or modified files in a submodules work tree or a difference between the subdmodules HEAD and the commit recorded in the superproject will make it show up as changed. This value is added as a new parameter for the "--ignore-submodules" option of the diff family and "git status" so the user can override the settings in the configuration. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Implement automatic fast-forward merge for submodules

2010-07-07T16:48:45Z

This implements a simple merge strategy for submodule hashes. We check whether one side of the merge candidates is already contained in the other and then merge automatically. If both sides contain changes we search for a merge in the submodule. In case a single one exists we check that out and suggest it as the merge resolution. A list of candidates is returned when we find multiple merges that contain both sides of the changes. This is useful for a workflow in which the developers can publish topic branches in submodules and a separate maintainer merges them. In case the developers always wait until their branch gets merged before tracking them in the superproject all merges of branches that contain submodule changes will be resolved automatically. If developers choose to track their feature branch the maintainer might get a conflict but git will search the submodule for a merge and suggest it/them as a resolution. Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Add the option "--ignore-submodules" to "git status"

2010-06-25T18:30:25Z

In some use cases it is not desirable that "git status" considers submodules that only contain untracked content as dirty. This may happen e.g. when the submodule is not under the developers control and not all build generated files have been added to .gitignore by the upstream developers. Using the "untracked" parameter for the "--ignore-submodules" option disables checking for untracked content and lets git diff report them as changed only when they have new commits or modified content. Sometimes it is not wanted to have submodules show up as changed when they just contain changes to their work tree (this was the behavior before 1.7.0). An example for that are scripts which just want to check for submodule commits while ignoring any changes to the work tree. Also users having large submodules known not to change might want to use this option, as the - sometimes substantial - time it takes to scan the submodule work tree(s) is saved when using the "dirty" parameter. And if you want to ignore any changes to submodules, you can now do that by using this option without parameters or with "all" (when the config option status.submodulesummary is set, using "all" will also suppress the output of the submodule summary). A new function handle_ignore_submodules_arg() is introduced to parse this option new to "git status" in a single location, as "git diff" already knew it. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

git status: ignoring untracked files must apply to submodules too

2010-03-14T05:56:35Z

Since 1.7.0 submodules are considered dirty when they contain untracked files. But when git status is called with the "-uno" option, the user asked to ignore untracked files, so they must be ignored in submodules too. To achieve this, the new flag DIFF_OPT_IGNORE_UNTRACKED_IN_SUBMODULES is introduced. Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano