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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG?] gitlink without .gitmodules no longer fails recursive clone
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 23:56:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170606035650.oykbz2uc4xkr3cr2@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)

While running some regression tests with v2.13, I noticed an odd
behavior. If I create a repository where there's a gitlink with no
matching .gitmodules entry:

  git init repo
  cd repo
  n10=1234abcdef
  n40=$n10$n10$n10$n10
  git update-index --add --cacheinfo 160000 $n40 foo
  git commit -m "gitlink without .gitmodule entry"

and then I clone it recursively with v2.12, it fails:

  $ git.v2.12.3 clone --recurse-submodules . dst; echo exit=$?
  Cloning into 'dst'...
  done.
  fatal: No url found for submodule path 'foo' in .gitmodules
  exit=128

But with v2.13, it silently ignores the submodule:

  $ git.v2.13.1 clone --recurse-submodules . dst; echo exit=$?
  Cloning into 'dst'...
  done.
  exit=0

This bisects to your bb62e0a99 (clone: teach --recurse-submodules to
optionally take a pathspec, 2017-03-17). That patch just sets
submodule.active by default, so I think the real issue is probably in
a086f921a (submodule: decouple url and submodule interest, 2017-03-17).

I also wasn't sure if this might be intentional. I.e., that we'd just
consider gitlink entries which aren't even configured as not-submodules
and ignore them. I couldn't certainly see an argument for moving in that
direction, but it is different than what we used to do. But I couldn't
find anything in any of the commit messages that mentioned this either
way, so I figured I'd punt and ask. :)

-Peff

             reply	other threads:[~2017-06-06  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-06  3:56 Jeff King [this message]
2017-06-06 18:01 ` [BUG?] gitlink without .gitmodules no longer fails recursive clone Stefan Beller
2017-06-06 18:10   ` Brandon Williams
2017-06-06 18:39     ` Jeff King
2017-06-09 23:19       ` Jeff King
2017-06-10  2:10         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-10  7:13           ` Jeff King
2017-06-10 11:12             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-12  5:30           ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-13  9:14         ` Jeff King
2017-06-13  9:24           ` [PATCH 1/2] add: warn when adding an embedded repository Jeff King
2017-06-13 17:07             ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-13 17:16               ` Brandon Williams
2017-06-14  6:36               ` Jeff King
2017-06-14 10:54                 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Jeff King
2017-06-14 10:58                   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] add: " Jeff King
2017-06-14 10:58                   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks Jeff King
2017-06-14 17:53                 ` [PATCH 1/2] add: warn when adding an embedded repository Stefan Beller
2017-06-15  6:01                   ` Jeff King
2017-06-13 17:16             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-14  6:38               ` Jeff King
2017-06-13  9:24           ` [PATCH 2/2] t: move "git add submodule" into test blocks Jeff King
2017-06-13 17:15             ` Stefan Beller

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