Re: [PATCH] pull: honor submodule.recurse config option

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin wrote:

> git pull used to not parse the submodule.recurse config option and simply
> consider the --recurse-submodules CLI option.
> When using the config option, submodules would only be fetched recursively
> while the CLi option would tigger both fetch and update/merge.
>
> Reported-by: Magnus Homann <magnus@homann.se>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nicolas@morey-chaisemartin.com>

nits:

* Git's commit messages usually use the present tense to describe the
  behavior of Git in absence of a patch, as though writing a bug report.
  They use the imperative mood to describe what the patch will do, as
  though commanding the code to do better.
* spelling: s/CLi/CLI/; s/tigger/trigger/
* please also wrap lines consistently

That would make

	"git pull" supports a --recurse-submodules option but does not parse the
	submodule.recurse configuration item to set the default for that option.
	Meanwhile "git fetch" does support submodule.recurse, producing
	confusing behavior: when submodule.recurse is enabled, "git pull"
	recursively fetches submodules but does not update them after fetch.

	Handle submodule.recurse in "git pull" to fix this.

> ---
>  builtin/pull.c | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Can you add a test to avoid future changes causing this to regress?
See t/t5572-pull-submodule.sh for some existing tests to get
inspiration from.

> diff --git a/builtin/pull.c b/builtin/pull.c
> index 7fe281414..e4edf23c5 100644
> --- a/builtin/pull.c
> +++ b/builtin/pull.c
> @@ -326,6 +326,11 @@ static int git_pull_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
>  		config_autostash = git_config_bool(var, value);
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +	if (!strcmp(var, "submodule.recurse")) {
> +		int r = git_config_bool(var, value) ?
> +			RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON : RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF;
> +		recurse_submodules = r;
> +	}
>  	return git_default_config(var, value, cb);
>  }
>  

The rest looks good.

Thanks for working on this,
Jonathan