This allows you to easily record a submodule.<name>.branch option in
.gitmodules when you add a new submodule. With this patch,
$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
$ git config -f .gitmodules submodule.<path>.branch <branch>
reduces to
$ git submodule add -b <branch> <repository> [<path>]
This means that future calls to
$ git submodule update --remote ...
will get updates from the same branch that you used to initialize the
submodule, which is usually what you want.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The current `update` command incorporates the superproject's gitlinked
SHA-1 ($sha1) into the submodule HEAD ($subsha1). Depending on the
options you use, it may checkout $sha1, rebase the $subsha1 onto
$sha1, or merge $sha1 into $subsha1. This helps you keep up with
changes in the upstream superproject.
However, it's also useful to stay up to date with changes in the
upstream subproject. Previous workflows for incorporating such
changes include the ungainly:
$ git submodule foreach 'git checkout $(git config --file $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch) && git pull'
With this patch, all of the useful functionality for incorporating
superproject changes can be reused to incorporate upstream subproject
updates. When you specify --remote, the target $sha1 is replaced with
a $sha1 of the submodule's origin/master tracking branch. If you want
to merge a different tracking branch, you can configure the
`submodule.<name>.branch` option in `.gitmodules`. You can override
the `.gitmodules` configuration setting for a particular superproject
by configuring the option in that superproject's default configuration
(using the usual configuration hierarchy, e.g. `.git/config`,
`~/.gitconfig`, etc.).
Previous use of submodule.<name>.branch
=======================================
Because we're adding a new configuration option, it's a good idea to
check if anyone else is already using the option. The foreach-pull
example above was described by Ævar in
commit f030c96d86
Author: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Fri May 21 16:10:10 2010 +0000
git-submodule foreach: Add $toplevel variable
Gerrit uses the same interpretation for the setting, but because
Gerrit has direct access to the subproject repositories, it updates
the superproject repositories automatically when a subproject changes.
Gerrit also accepts the special value '.', which it expands into the
superproject's branch name.
Although the --remote functionality is using `submodule.<name>.branch`
slightly differently, the effect is the same. The foreach-pull
example uses the option to record the name of the local branch to
checkout before pulls. The tracking branch to be pulled is recorded
in `.git/modules/<name>/config`, which was initialized by the module
clone during `submodule add` or `submodule init`. Because the branch
name stored in `submodule.<name>.branch` was likely the same as the
branch name used during the initial `submodule add`, the same branch
will be pulled in each workflow.
Implementation details
======================
In order to ensure a current tracking branch state, `update --remote`
fetches the submodule's remote repository before calculating the
SHA-1. However, I didn't change the logic guarding the existing fetch:
if test -z "$nofetch"
then
# Run fetch only if $sha1 isn't present or it
# is not reachable from a ref.
(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" &&
( (rev=$(git rev-list -n 1 $sha1 --not --all 2>/dev/null) &&
test -z "$rev") || git-fetch)) ||
die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$path'")"
fi
There will not be a double-fetch, because the new $sha1 determined
after the `--remote` triggered fetch should always exist in the
repository. If it doesn't, it's because some racy process removed it
from the submodule's repository and we *should* be re-fetching.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Several submodule configuration variables
(e.g. fetchRecurseSubmodules) are read from .gitmodules with local
overrides from the usual git config files. This shell function mimics
that logic to help initialize configuration variables in
git-submodule.sh.
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cleans up some leftover bits from an earlier submodule change.
* ph/maint-submodule-status-fix:
submodule status: remove unused orig_* variables
t7407: Fix recursive submodule test
If you remove a submodule, in order to keep the repository so that
"git checkout" to an older commit in the superproject history can
resurrect the submodule, the real repository will stay in $GIT_DIR
of the superproject. A later "git submodule add $path" to add a
different submodule at the same path will fail. Diagnose this case
a bit better, and if the user really wants to add an unrelated
submodule at the same path, give the "--name" option to give it a
place in $GIT_DIR of the superproject that does not conflict with
the original submodule.
* jl/submodule-add-by-name:
submodule add: Fail when .git/modules/<name> already exists unless forced
Teach "git submodule add" the --name option
The submodule sync command was somehow left out when
--recursive was added to the other submodule commands.
Teach sync to handle the --recursive switch by recursing
when we're in a submodule we are sync'ing.
Change the report during sync to show submodule-path
instead of submodule-name to be consistent with the other
submodule commands and to help recursed paths make sense.
Signed-off-by: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Acked-By: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
When renaming orig_args to orig_flags in 98dbe63d (submodule: only
preserve flags across recursive status/update invocations) the call site
of the recursive cmd_status was forgotten. At that place orig_args is
still passed into the recursion, which is always empty since then. This
did not break anything because the orig_flags logic is not needed at all
when a function from the submodule script is called with eval, as that
inherits all the variables set by the option parsing done in the first
level of the recursion.
Now that we know that orig_flags and orig_args aren't needed at all,
let's just remove them from cmd_status().
Thanks-to: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Doing a shift here is wrong because there is no extra
argument to consume when "--reference=<repo>" is used (note
the '=' instead of a space).
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Use "-b <branch>" instead of "-b branch". This brings the usage
strings in line with other options, e.g. "--reference <repository>".
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
"git submodule frotz" was not diagnosed as "frotz" being an unknown
subcommand to "git submodule"; the user instead got a complaint that
"git submodule status" was run with an unknown path "frotz".
* rr/maint-submodule-unknown-cmd:
submodule: if $command was not matched, don't parse other args
When adding a new submodule it can happen that .git/modules/<name> already
contains a submodule repo, e.g. when a submodule is removed from the work
tree and another submodule is added at the same path. But then the work
tree of the submodule will be populated using the existing repository and
not the one the user provided, which results in an incorrect work tree. On
the other hand the user might reactivate a submodule removed earlier, then
reusing that .git directory is the Right Thing to do.
As git can't decide what is the case, error out and tell the user she
should use either use a different name for the submodule with the "--name"
option or can reuse the .git directory for the newly added submodule by
providing the --force option (which only makes sense when the upstream
matches, so the error message lists all remotes of .git/modules/<name>).
In one test in t7406 the --force option had to be added to "git submodule
add", as that test re-adds a formerly removed submodule.
Reported-by: Jonathan Johnson <me@jondavidjohn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule add" initializes the name of a submodule to its path. This
was ok as long as the .git directory lived inside the submodule's work
tree, but since 1.7.8 it is stored in the .git/modules/<name> directory of
the superproject, making the submodule name survive the removal of the
submodule's work tree. This leads to problems when the user tries to add a
different submodule at the same path - and thus the same name - later, as
that will happily try to restore the submodule from the old repository
instead of the one the user specified and will lead to a checkout of the
wrong repository.
Add the new "--name" option to let the user provide a name for the
submodule. This enables the user to solve this conflict without having to
remove .git/modules/<name> by hand (which is no viable solution as it
makes it impossible to checkout a commit that records the old submodule
and populate it, as that will still check out the new submodule for the
same reason).
To achieve that the submodule's name is added to the parameter list of
the module_clone() helper function. This makes it possible to remove the
call of module_name() there because both callers of module_clone() already
know the name and can provide it as argument number two.
Reported-by: Jonathan Johnson <me@jondavidjohn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule" command DWIMs the command line and assumes a
unspecified action word for 'status' action. This is a UI mistake
that leads to a confusing behaviour. A mistyped command name is
instead treated as a request for 'status' of the submodule with that
name, e.g.
$ git submodule show
error: pathspec 'show' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Did you forget to 'git add'?
Stop DWIMming an unknown or mistyped subcommand name as pathspec
given to unspelled "status" subcommand. "git submodule" without any
argument is still interpreted as "git submodule status", but its
value is questionable.
Adjust t7400 to match, and stop advertising the default subcommand
being 'status' which does not help much in practice, other than
promoting laziness and confusion.
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git submodule update --force" used to leave the working tree of the
submodule intact when there were local changes. It is more intiutive
to make "--force" a sign to run "checkout -f" to overwrite them.
* sz/submodule-force-update:
Make 'git submodule update --force' always check out submodules.
Currently, it will only do a checkout if the sha1 registered in the containing
repository doesn't match the HEAD of the submodule, regardless of whether the
submodule is dirty. As discussed on the mailing list, the '--force' flag is a
strong indicator that the state of the submodule is suspect, and should be reset
to HEAD.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Zager <szager@google.com>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various subcommands of the "git submodule" command exited with 0
status even though the path given by the user did not exist.
The reason behind that was that they all pipe the output of
module_list into the while loop which then does the action on the
paths specified by the commandline. Since the exit code of the
command on the upstream side of the pipe is ignored by the shell,
the status code of "ls-files --error-unmatch" nor "module_list" was
not propagated.
In case ls-files returns with an error code, we write a special
string that is not possible in non error situations, and no other
output, so that the downstream can detect the error and die with an
error code.
The error message that there is an unmatched pathspec comes through
stderr directly from ls-files. So the user still gets a hint whats going
on.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add i18n support for scripted Porcelains, and mark strings in
merge(-recursive), am, and rebase for i18n.
* jx/i18n-1.7.11:
i18n: merge-recursive: mark strings for translation
Remove dead code which contains bad gettext block
i18n: am: mark more strings for translation
rebase: remove obsolete and unused LONG_USAGE which breaks xgettext
i18n: Rewrite gettext messages start with dash
i18n: rebase: mark messages for translation
i18n: New keywords for xgettext extraction from sh
When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
path to the current directory.
* jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink:
submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively
Gettext message in a shell script should not start with '-', one
workaround is adding '--' between gettext and the message, like:
gettext -- "--exec option ..."
But due to a bug in the xgettext extraction, xgettext can not
extract the actual message for this case. Rewriting the message
is a simpler and better solution.
Reported-by: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The combination of GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE can be used to manage
files in one directory hierarchy while keeping the repository that
keeps track of them outside the directory hierarchy. For example:
git init --bare /path/to/there
alias dotfiles="GIT_DIR=/path/to/there GIT_WORK_TREE=/path/to/here git"
cd /path/to/here
dotfiles add file
dotfiles commit -a -m "add /path/to/here/file"
...
lets you manage files under /path/to/here/ in the repository located
at /path/to/there.
git-submodule however fails to add submodules, as it is confused by
GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when it tries to
work in the submodule, like so:
dotfiles submodule add http://path.to/submodule
fatal: working tree '/path/to/here' already exists.
Simply unsetting the environment where the command works on the
submodule is sufficient to fix this, as it has set things up so
that GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE do not even have to point at the
repository and the working tree of the submodule.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Graña <dangra@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
path to the current directory.
* jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink:
submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively
Since 69c3051 (submodules: refactor computation of relative gitdir path)
cloning a submodule recursively fails for nested submodules when a
symbolic link is part of the path to the work tree of the superproject.
This happens when module_clone() tries to find the relative paths between
the work tree and the git dir. When a symbolic link in current $PWD points
to a directory that is at a different level, then determining the number
of "../" needed to traverse to the superproject's work tree leads to a
wrong result.
As there is no portable way to say "pwd -P", use cd_to_toplevel to remove
the link from $PWD, which fixes this problem.
A test for this issue has been added to t7406.
Reported-by: Bob Halley <halley@play-bow.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach "git submodule" deal with nested submodule structure where a
module is contained within a module whose origin is specified as a
relative URL to its superproject's origin.
Currently git submodule init and git submodule sync fail with an error
if the superproject origin URL is of the form foo but succeed if the
superproject origin URL is of the form ./foo or ./foo/bar or foo/bar.
This change makes handling of the foo case behave like the handling
of the ./foo case and also ensures that superfluous leading and
embedded ./'s are removed from the resulting derived URLs.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the origin URL of the superproject is itself relative, git submodule sync
configures the remote.origin.url configuration property of the submodule
with a path that is relative to the work tree of the superproject
rather than the work tree of the submodule.
To fix this an 'up_path' that navigates from the work tree of the submodule
to the work tree of the superproject needs to be prepended to the URL
otherwise calculated.
Correct handling of superproject origin URLs like foo, ./foo and ./foo/bar is
left to a subsequent patch since an additional change is required to handle
these cases.
The documentation of resolve_relative_url() is expanded to give a more thorough
description of the function's objective.
Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since 2cd9de3e (submodule add: always initialize .git/config entry) the
message "Submodule '\$name' (\$url) registered for path '\$sm_path'" is
printed every time cmd_init() is called, e.g. each time "git submodule
update" is used with the --init option.
This was not intended and leads to bogus output which can confuse users
and build systems. Apart from that the $url variable was not set after the
first run which did the actual initialization and only "()" was printed
in subsequent runs where "($url)" was meant to inform the user about the
upstream repo.
Fix that by moving the say command in question into the if block where the
url is initialized, restoring the behavior that was in place before the
2cd9de3e commit. While at it also remove the comment which still describes
the logic used before 2cd9de3e and add a comment about how things work now.
Reported-by: Nicolas Viennot and Sid Nair <nicolas@viennot.com>
Reported-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The eval_gettext (and eval_gettextln) i18n shell functions call
git-sh-i18n--envsubst to process the variable references in the
string parameter. Unfortunately, environment variables are case
insensitive on windows, which leads to failure on cygwin when
eval_gettext exports $path.
Commit df599e9 (Windows: teach getenv to do a case-sensitive search,
06-06-2011) attempts to solve this problem on MinGW by overriding
the system getenv() function to allow git-sh-i18n--envsubst to read
$path rather than $PATH from the environment. However, this commit
does not address cygwin at all and, furthermore, does not fix all
problems on MinGW.
In particular, when executing test #38 in t7400-submodule-basic.sh,
an 'git-sh-i18n-envsubst.exe - Unable To Locate Component' dialog
pops up saying that the application "failed to start because
libiconv2.dll was not found." After studying the voluminous trace
output from the process monitor, it is clear that the system is
attempting to use $path, rather than $PATH, to search for the DLL
file. (Note that, after dismissing the dialog, the test passes
anyway!)
As an alternative, we finesse the problem by renaming the $path
variable to $sm_path (submodule path). This fixes the problem on
MinGW along with all test failures on cygwin (t7400.{7,32,34},
t7406.3 and t7407.{2,6}). We note that the foreach subcommand
provides $path to user scripts (ie it is part of the API), so we
can't simply rename it to $sm_path.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Tested-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The sed provided by Solaris in /usr/xpg4/bin has a bug whereby an
unanchored regex using * for zero or more repetitions sees two
separate matches fed to the substitution engine in some cases.
This is evidenced by:
$ for sed in /usr/xpg4/bin/sed /usr/bin/sed /opt/csw/gnu/sed; do \
echo 'ab' | $sed -e 's|[a]*|X|g'; \
done
XXbX
XbX
XbX
This bug was triggered during a git submodule clone operation as
exercised in the setup stage of t5526-fetch-submodules when using the
default SANE_TOOL_PATH for Solaris. It led to paths such as
..../.. being used in the submodule .git gitdir reference.
Using the expression 's|\([^/]*\(/*\)\)|..\2|g' provides the desired
result with all three three tested sed implementations but is harder
to read. As we do not need to handle fully qualified paths though,
the expression could actually be [^/]+ which isn't properly handled
either. Instead, use [^/][^/]*, as suggested by Andreas Schwab, which
works on all three tested sed implementations.
The new expression is semantically different than the original one.
It will not place a leading '..' on a fully qualified path as the
original expression did. All of the paths being passed through this
regex are relative and did not rely on this behaviour so it's a safe
change.
Signed-off-by: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Under Windows the "git rev-parse --git-dir" and "pwd" commands may return
either drive-letter-colon or POSIX style paths. This makes module_clone()
behave badly because it expects absolute paths to always start with a '/'.
Fix that by always converting the "c:/" notation into "/c/" when computing
the relative paths from gitdir to the submodule work tree and back.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In module_clone() the rel_gitdir variable was computed differently when
"git rev-parse --git-dir" returned a relative path than when it returned
an absolute path. This is not optimal, as different code paths are used
depending on the return value of that command.
Fix that by reusing the differing path components computed for setting the
core.worktree config setting, which leaves a single code path for setting
both instead of having three and makes the code much shorter.
This also fixes the bug that in the computation of how many directories
have to be traversed up to hit the root directory of the submodule the
name of the submodule was used where the path should have been used. This
lead to problems after renaming submodules into another directory level.
Even though the "(cd $somewhere && pwd)" approach breaks the flexibility
of symlinks, that is no issue here as we have to have one relative path
pointing from the work tree to the gitdir and another pointing back, which
will never work anyway when a symlink along one of those paths is changed
because the directory it points to was moved.
Also add a test moving a submodule into a deeper directory to catch any
future breakage here and to document what has to be done when a submodule
needs to be moved until git mv learns to do that. Simply moving it to the
new location doesn't work, as the core.worktree and possibly the gitfile
setting too will be wrong. So it has to be removed from filesystem and
index, then the new location has to be added into the index and the
.gitmodules file has to be updated. After that a git submodule update will
check out the submodule at the new location.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since recently a submodule with name <name> has its git directory in the
.git/modules/<name> directory of the superproject while the work tree
contains a gitfile pointing there. To make that work the git directory has
the core.worktree configuration set in its config file to point back to
the work tree.
That core.worktree is an absolute path set by the initial clone of the
submodule. A relative path is preferable here because it allows the
superproject to be moved around without invalidating that setting, so
compute and set that relative path after cloning or reactivating the
submodule.
This also fixes a bug when moving a submodule around inside the
superproject, as the current code forgot to update the setting to the new
submodule work tree location.
Enhance t7400 to ensure that future versions won't re-add absolute paths
by accident and that moving a superproject won't break submodules.
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since recently a submodule with name <name> has its git directory in the
.git/modules/<name> directory of the superproject while the work tree
contains a gitfile pointing there. When the submodule git directory needs
to be cloned because it is not found in .git/modules/<name> the clone
command will write an absolute path into the gitfile. When no clone is
necessary the git directory will be reactivated by the git-submodule.sh
script by writing a relative path into the gitfile.
This is inconsistent, as the behavior depends on the submodule having been
cloned before into the .git/modules of the superproject. A relative path
is preferable here because it allows the superproject to be moved around
without invalidating the gitfile. We do that by always writing the
relative path into the gitfile, which overwrites the absolute path the
clone command may have written there.
This is only the first step to make superprojects movable again like they
were before the separate-git-dir approach was introduced. The second step
is to use a relative path in core.worktree too.
Enhance t7400 to ensure that future versions won't re-add absolute paths
by accident.
While at it also replace an if/else construct evaluating the presence
of the 'reference' option with a single line of bash code.
Reported-by: Antony Male <antony.male@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since recently a submodule with name <name> has its git directory in the
.git/modules/<name> directory of the superproject while the work tree
contains a gitfile pointing there.
When the same submodule is added on a branch where it wasn't present so
far (it is not found in the .gitmodules file), the name is not initialized
from the path as it should. This leads to a wrong path entered in the
gitfile when the .git/modules/<name> directory is found, as this happily
uses the - now empty - name. It then always points only a single directory
up, even if we have a path deeper in the directory hierarchy.
Fix that by initializing the name of the submodule early in module_clone()
if module_name() returned an empty name and add a test to catch that bug.
Reported-by: Jehan Bing <jehan@orb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The die() message that may occur in module_name() is not really relevant
to the user when called from module_clone(); the latter handles the
"failure" (no submodule mapping) anyway.
Analysis of other callsites is left to future work.
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
* js/i18n-scripts:
submodule: take advantage of gettextln and eval_gettextln.
stash: take advantage of eval_gettextln
pull: take advantage of eval_gettextln
git-am: take advantage of gettextln and eval_gettextln.
gettext: add gettextln, eval_gettextln to encode common idiom
Move git-dir for submodules into $GIT_DIR/modules/[name_of_submodule] of
the superproject. This is a step towards being able to delete submodule
directories without loosing the information from their .git directory
as that is now stored outside the submodules work tree.
This is done relying on the already existent .git-file functionality.
When adding or updating a submodule whose git directory is found under
$GIT_DIR/modules/[name_of_submodule], don't clone it again but simply
point the .git-file to it and remove the now stale index file from it.
The index will be recreated by the following checkout.
This patch will not affect already cloned submodules at all.
Tests that rely on .git being a directory have been fixed.
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Mentored-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Mentored-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
