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From: Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org>
To: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Cc: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>,
	Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: How to checkout a revision that contains a deleted submodule?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:32:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE5ih7-PsGpirnPVnCP__11qYBXeuP=tjQ9MC_d6oby-uqJy7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFBB71FD-8D1F-4E86-9E37-813018AFC690@gmail.com>

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 00:14, Philippe Blain
<levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Luke and Kaartic,
>
> > Le 20 sept. 2020 à 14:02, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > On 20/09/20 3:14 pm, Luke Diamand wrote:
> >> On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 10:03, Luke Diamand <luke@diamand.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Maybe this is a FAQ, but I couldn't figure it out!
> >>>
> >>> I have a repo which has a couple of submodules.
> >>>
> >>> At some point in the past I deleted one of those submodules:
> >>>
> >>>     git rm sub2
> >>>     git add -u
> >>>     git commit -m 'Deleting sub2'
> >>>     git push origin
> >>>     ...
> >>>     ... more commits and pushes...
> >>>
> >>> Now I go and clone the head revision. This gives me a clone which has
> >>> nothing present in .git/modules/sub2.
> >>>     login on some other machine
> >>>     git clone git@my.repo:thing
> >>>     cd thing
> >>>     ls .git/modules
> >>>     <sub2 not present>
> >>>
> >>> So when I go and checkout an old revision where sub2 is still around I get:
> >>>     git checkout oldrevision
> >>>     fatal: not a git repository: sub2/../.git/modules/sub2
> >>>
> >>> What am I doing wrong?
> >>> What set of commands do I need to use to ensure that this will always
> >>> do the right thing?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Luke
> >>
> >> Replying to myself, adding Jens who added the section below.
> >>
> >> This is a known bug:
> >>
> >> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rm
> >>
> >>> BUGS
> >>> ----
> >>> Each time a superproject update removes a populated submodule
> >>> (e.g. when switching between commits before and after the removal) a
> >>> stale submodule checkout will remain in the old location. Removing the
> >>> old directory is only safe when it uses a gitfile, as otherwise the
> >>> history of the submodule will be deleted too. This step will be
> >>> obsolete when recursive submodule update has been implemented.
> >>
> >
> > I don't think that part of the documentation applies to your case.
>
> I also don't think this part of the doc applies here.
>
>
> > So,
> > I also don't think this is a known bug. As a matter of fact, I couldn't
> > reproduce this with the following:
> >
> >
> > git init checkout-removed-submodule &&
> > cd checkout-removed-submodule/ &&
> > echo "Hello, world" >foo &&
> > git add foo && git commit -m "Initial commit" &&
> > git init ../submodule &&
> > cd ../submodule/ &&
> > echo "Foo bar" >foobar.txt &&
> > git add foobar.txt && git commit -m "Foo bar baz" &&
> > cd ../checkout-removed-submodule/ &&
> > git submodule add ../submodule/ foobar &&
> > git commit -m "Add foobar submodule" &&
> > git rm foobar/ &&
> > git commit -m "Remove foobar submodule" &&
> > git checkout HEAD~ # Checking out the "Add foobar submodule" commit
>
> Yes. At this point "foobar" would be empty because '--recurse-submodules' was not used
> on 'checkout'. Using `git checkout --recurse-submodules HEAD~` instead would populate it,
> and it would work correctly because the Git repository
> of foobar does exist at .git/modules/foobar.
>
> > I also tried with a cloned version of that repository as follows:
>
> here let's make sure we re-checkout 'master' before cloning:
> git checkout -
>
> > git clone /me/checkout-removed-submodule/ cloned-repo &&
> > cd cloned-repo &&
> > git co HEAD~
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > HEAD is now at 25270d8 Add foobar submodule
>
> I get the same thing, with or without '--recurse-submodules'.
>
> However, if I you have the 'submodule.active'
> configuration set to '.', which is the case if you *cloned* with '--recurse-submodules',
> and you then checkout with '--recurse-submodules',
> then it fails as Luke describes:
>
> git clone --recurse-submodules  checkout-removed-submodule cloned-repo
> cd cloned-repo &&
> git co --recurse-submodules HEAD~
>   fatal: not a git repository: ../.git/modules/foobar
>   fatal: could not reset submodule index
>
> This bug was reported earlier in May [1], and I suggested a couple ways
> the experience could be improved.
>
> I might add here that maybe a good idea would be that 'checkout'
> be taught to try to clone the missing submodules if it does not find their
> repository at .git/modules.

I was thinking this myself. I think the code change might be quite
straightforward.

I added a test case for this problem here:

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200921081537.15300-2-luke@diamand.org/

I think I could probably have a go at redoing this with an attempt at
a fix to get `git checkout` to clone missing submodules.

Luke

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22  4:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19  9:03 How to checkout a revision that contains a deleted submodule? Luke Diamand
2020-09-20  9:44 ` Luke Diamand
2020-09-20 18:02   ` Kaartic Sivaraam
2020-09-20 20:52     ` Luke Diamand
2020-09-21 23:14     ` Philippe Blain
2020-09-22  4:32       ` Luke Diamand [this message]
2020-09-21 22:46   ` Philippe Blain

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