We forgot to prepare the submodule env, which is only a problem for
nested submodules. See 2e5d6503bd (ls-files: fix recurse-submodules
with nested submodules, 2017-04-13) for further explanation.
To come up with a proper test for this, we'd need to look at nested
submodules just as in that given commit. It turns out we're lucky
and these tests already exist, but are marked as failing. We need
to pass `--recurse-submodules` to read-tree additionally to make
these tests pass. Passing that flag alone would not make the tests
pass, such that this covers testing for the bug fix of the submodule
env as well.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All commands that are run in a submodule, are run in a correct setup,
there is no need to prepare the environment without setting the GIT_DIR
variable. By setting the GIT_DIR variable we fix issues as discussed in
10f5c52656 (submodule: avoid auto-discovery in
prepare_submodule_repo_env(), 2016-09-01)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We do not need to declare another struct child_process, but we can just
reuse the existing `cp` struct.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is
replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also
when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible
from the other worktrees.
* nd/files-backend-git-dir: (28 commits)
refs.h: add a note about sorting order of for_each_ref_*
t1406: new tests for submodule ref store
t1405: some basic tests on main ref store
t/helper: add test-ref-store to test ref-store functions
refs: delete pack_refs() in favor of refs_pack_refs()
files-backend: avoid ref api targeting main ref store
refs: new transaction related ref-store api
refs: add new ref-store api
refs: rename get_ref_store() to get_submodule_ref_store() and make it public
files-backend: replace submodule_allowed check in files_downcast()
refs: move submodule code out of files-backend.c
path.c: move some code out of strbuf_git_path_submodule()
refs.c: make get_main_ref_store() public and use it
refs.c: kill register_ref_store(), add register_submodule_ref_store()
refs.c: flatten get_ref_store() a bit
refs: rename lookup_ref_store() to lookup_submodule_ref_store()
refs.c: introduce get_main_ref_store()
files-backend: remove the use of git_path()
files-backend: add and use files_ref_path()
files-backend: add and use files_reflog_path()
...
"git push --recurse-submodules --push-option=<string>" learned to
propagate the push option recursively down to pushes in submodules.
* bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules:
push: propagate remote and refspec with --recurse-submodules
submodule--helper: add push-check subcommand
remote: expose parse_push_refspec function
push: propagate push-options with --recurse-submodules
push: unmark a local variable as static
Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues.
* bc/object-id:
Documentation: update and rename api-sha1-array.txt
Rename sha1_array to oid_array
Convert sha1_array_for_each_unique and for_each_abbrev to object_id
Convert sha1_array_lookup to take struct object_id
Convert remaining callers of sha1_array_lookup to object_id
Make sha1_array_append take a struct object_id *
sha1-array: convert internal storage for struct sha1_array to object_id
builtin/pull: convert to struct object_id
submodule: convert check_for_new_submodule_commits to object_id
sha1_name: convert disambiguate_hint_fn to take object_id
sha1_name: convert struct disambiguate_state to object_id
test-sha1-array: convert most code to struct object_id
parse-options-cb: convert sha1_array_append caller to struct object_id
fsck: convert init_skiplist to struct object_id
builtin/receive-pack: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/pull: convert portions to struct object_id
builtin/diff: convert to struct object_id
Convert GIT_SHA1_RAWSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_RAWSZ
Convert GIT_SHA1_HEXSZ used for allocation to GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
Define new hash-size constants for allocating memory
The output from "git status --short" has been extended to show
various kinds of dirtyness in submodules differently; instead of to
"M" for modified, 'm' and '?' can be shown to signal changes only
to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is
checked out.
* sb/submodule-short-status:
submodule.c: correctly handle nested submodules in is_submodule_modified
short status: improve reporting for submodule changes
submodule.c: stricter checking for submodules in is_submodule_modified
submodule.c: port is_submodule_modified to use porcelain 2
submodule.c: convert is_submodule_modified to use strbuf_getwholeline
submodule.c: factor out early loop termination in is_submodule_modified
submodule.c: use argv_array in is_submodule_modified
"git diff --submodule=diff" learned to work better in a project
with a submodule that in turn has its own submodules.
* sb/show-diff-for-submodule-in-diff-fix:
diff: submodule inline diff to initialize env array.
Code clean-up.
* jk/snprintf-cleanups:
daemon: use an argv_array to exec children
gc: replace local buffer with git_path
transport-helper: replace checked snprintf with xsnprintf
convert unchecked snprintf into xsnprintf
combine-diff: replace malloc/snprintf with xstrfmt
replace unchecked snprintf calls with heap buffers
receive-pack: print --pack-header directly into argv array
name-rev: replace static buffer with strbuf
create_branch: use xstrfmt for reflog message
create_branch: move msg setup closer to point of use
avoid using mksnpath for refs
avoid using fixed PATH_MAX buffers for refs
fetch: use heap buffer to format reflog
tag: use strbuf to format tag header
diff: avoid fixed-size buffer for patch-ids
odb_mkstemp: use git_path_buf
odb_mkstemp: write filename into strbuf
do not check odb_mkstemp return value for errors
Teach "push --recurse-submodules" to propagate, if given a name as remote, the
provided remote and refspec recursively to the pushes performed in the
submodules. The push will therefore only succeed if all submodules have a
remote with such a name configured.
Note that "push --recurse-submodules" with a path or URL as remote will not
propagate the remote or refspec and instead use the default remote and refspec
configured in the submodule, preserving the current behavior.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Teach push --recurse-submodules to propagate push-options recursively to
the pushes performed in the submodules.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
David reported:
> When I try to run `git diff --submodule=diff` in a submodule which has
> it's own submodules that have changes I get the error: fatal: bad
> object.
This happens, because we do not properly initialize the environment
in which the diff is run in the submodule. That means we inherit the
environment from the main process, which sets environment variables.
(Apparently we do set environment variables which we do not set
when not in a submodules, i.e. the .git directory is linked)
This commit, just like fd47ae6a5b (diff: teach diff to display
submodule difference with an inline diff, 2016-08-31) introduces bad
test code (i.e. hard coded hash values), which will be cleanup up in
a later patch.
Reported-by: David Parrish <daveparrish@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since this structure handles an array of object IDs, rename it to struct
oid_array. Also rename the accessor functions and the initialization
constant.
This commit was produced mechanically by providing non-Documentation
files to the following Perl one-liners:
perl -pi -E 's/struct sha1_array/struct oid_array/g'
perl -pi -E 's/\bsha1_array_/oid_array_/g'
perl -pi -E 's/SHA1_ARRAY_INIT/OID_ARRAY_INIT/g'
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Make sha1_array_for_each_unique take a callback using struct object_id.
Since one of these callbacks is an argument to for_each_abbrev, convert
those as well. Rename various functions, replacing "sha1" with "oid".
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the callers to pass struct object_id by changing the function
declaration and definition and applying the following semantic patch:
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_array_append(E1, E2.hash)
+ sha1_array_append(E1, &E2)
@@
expression E1, E2;
@@
- sha1_array_append(E1, E2->hash)
+ sha1_array_append(E1, E2)
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These calls to snprintf should always succeed, because their
input is small and fixed. Let's use xsnprintf to make sure
this is the case (and to make auditing for actual truncation
easier).
These could be candidates for turning into heap buffers, but
they fall into a few broad categories that make it not worth
doing:
- formatting single numbers is simple enough that we can
see the result should fit
- the size of a sha1 is likewise well-known, and I didn't
want to cause unnecessary conflicts with the ongoing
process to convert these constants to GIT_MAX_HEXSZ
- the interface for curl_errorstr is dictated by curl
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
"what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we
interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct
concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended,
paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many
submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple
worktrees for a project with submodules.
* bw/submodule-is-active:
submodule add: respect submodule.active and submodule.<name>.active
submodule--helper init: set submodule.<name>.active
clone: teach --recurse-submodules to optionally take a pathspec
submodule init: initialize active submodules
submodule: decouple url and submodule interest
submodule--helper clone: check for configured submodules using helper
submodule sync: use submodule--helper is-active
submodule sync: skip work for inactive submodules
submodule status: use submodule--helper is-active
submodule--helper: add is-active subcommand
Suppose I have a superproject 'super', with two submodules 'super/sub'
and 'super/sub1'. 'super/sub' itself contains a submodule
'super/sub/subsub'. Now suppose I run, from within 'super':
echo hi >sub/subsub/stray-file
echo hi >sub1/stray-file
Currently we get would see the following output in git-status:
git status --short
m sub
? sub1
With this patch applied, the untracked file in the nested submodule is
displayed as an untracked file on the 'super' level as well.
git status --short
? sub
? sub1
This doesn't change the output of 'git status --porcelain=1' for nested
submodules, because its output is always ' M' for either untracked files
or local modifications no matter the nesting level of the submodule.
'git status --porcelain=2' is affected by this change in a nested
submodule, though. Without this patch it would report the direct submodule
as modified and having no untracked files. With this patch it would report
untracked files. Chalk this up as a bug fix.
This bug fix also affects the default output (non-short, non-porcelain)
of git-status, which is not tested here.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git checkout" is taught the "--recurse-submodules" option.
* sb/checkout-recurse-submodules:
builtin/read-tree: add --recurse-submodules switch
builtin/checkout: add --recurse-submodules switch
entry.c: create submodules when interesting
unpack-trees: check if we can perform the operation for submodules
unpack-trees: pass old oid to verify_clean_submodule
update submodules: add submodule_move_head
submodule.c: get_super_prefix_or_empty
update submodules: move up prepare_submodule_repo_env
submodules: introduce check to see whether to touch a submodule
update submodules: add a config option to determine if submodules are updated
update submodules: add submodule config parsing
make is_submodule_populated gently
lib-submodule-update.sh: define tests for recursing into submodules
lib-submodule-update.sh: replace sha1 by hash
lib-submodule-update: teach test_submodule_content the -C <dir> flag
lib-submodule-update.sh: do not use ./. as submodule remote
lib-submodule-update.sh: reorder create_lib_submodule_repo
submodule--helper.c: remove duplicate code
connect_work_tree_and_git_dir: safely create leading directories
All of the callers of this function have been converted, so convert this
function and update the callers. This function also calls
sha1_array_append, which we'll convert shortly.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
refs is learning to avoid path rewriting that is done by
strbuf_git_path_submodule(). Factor out this code so it could be reused
by refs_* functions.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
By having a stricter check in the superproject we catch errors earlier,
instead of spawning a child process to tell us.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Migrate 'is_submodule_modified' to the new porcelain format of
git-status. This conversion attempts to convert faithfully, i.e.
the behavior ought to be exactly the same.
As the output in the parsing only distinguishes between untracked files
and the rest, this is easy to port to the new format, as we only
need to identify untracked files and the rest is handled in the "else"
case.
untracked files are indicated by only a single question mark instead of
two question marks, so the conversion is easy.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Instead of implementing line reading yet again, make use of our beautiful
library function to read one line. By using strbuf_getwholeline instead
of strbuf_read, we avoid having to allocate memory for the entire child
process output at once. That is, we limit maximum memory usage.
Also we can start processing the output as it comes in, no need to
wait for all of it.
Once we know all information that we care about, we can terminate
the child early. In that case we do not care about its exit code as well.
By just closing our side of the pipe the child process will get a SIGPIPE
signal, which it will not report nor do we report it in finish_command,
ac78663b0d (run-command: don't warn on SIGPIPE deaths, 2015-12-29).
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This makes it easier for a follow up patch.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
struct argv_array is easier to use and maintain.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Currently the submodule.<name>.url config option is used to determine if
a given submodule is of interest to the user. This ends up being
cumbersome in a world where we want to have different submodules checked
out in different worktrees or a more generalized mechanism to select
which submodules are of interest.
In a future with worktree support for submodules, there will be multiple
working trees, each of which may only need a subset of the submodules
checked out. The URL (which is where the submodule repository can be
obtained) should not differ between different working trees.
It may also be convenient for users to more easily specify groups of
submodules they are interested in as opposed to running "git submodule
init <path>" on each submodule they want checked out in their working
tree.
To this end two config options are introduced, submodule.active and
submodule.<name>.active. The submodule.active config holds a pathspec
that specifies which submodules should exist in the working tree. The
submodule.<name>.active config is a boolean flag used to indicate if
that particular submodule should exist in the working tree.
Its important to note that submodule.active functions differently than
the other configuration options since it takes a pathspec. This allows
users to adopt at least two new workflows:
1. Submodules can be grouped with a leading directory, such that a
pathspec e.g. 'lib/' would cover all library-ish modules to allow
those who are interested in library-ish modules to set
"submodule.active = lib/" just once to say any and all modules in
'lib/' are interesting.
2. Once the pathspec-attribute feature is invented, users can label
submodules with attributes to group them, so that a broad pathspec
with attribute requirements, e.g. ':(attr:lib)', can be used to say
any and all modules with the 'lib' attribute are interesting.
Since the .gitattributes file, just like the .gitmodules file, is
tracked by the superproject, when a submodule moves in the
superproject tree, the project can adjust which path gets the
attribute in .gitattributes, just like it can adjust which path has
the submodule in .gitmodules.
Neither of these two additional configuration options solve the problem
of wanting different submodules checked out in different worktrees
because multiple worktrees share .git/config. Only once per-worktree
configurations become a reality can this be solved, but this is a
necessary preparatory step for that future.
Given these multiple ways to check if a submodule is of interest, the
more fine-grained submodule.<name>.active option has the highest order
of precedence followed by the pathspec check against submodule.active.
To ensure backwards compatibility, if neither of these options are set,
git falls back to checking the submodule.<name>.url option to determine
if a submodule is interesting.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse"
lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another
project, and where the root level of the working tree of that
project (i.e. your superproject) is.
* sb/rev-parse-show-superproject-root:
rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree
In later patches we introduce the options and flag for commands
that modify the working directory, e.g. git-checkout.
This piece of code will be used universally for
all these working tree modifications as it
* supports dry run to answer the question:
"Is it safe to change the submodule to this new state?"
e.g. is it overwriting untracked files or are there local
changes that would be overwritten?
* supports a force flag that can be used for resetting
the tree.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we need to use the super_prefix, and
in case it is NULL we can just assume it is empty.
Create a helper function for this.
We already have some use cases for this helper function,
convert them, too.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we need to prepare the submodule environment with
another git directory, so split up the function.
Also move it up in the file such that we do not need to declare the
function later before using it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In later patches we introduce the --recurse-submodule flag for commands
that modify the working directory, e.g. git-checkout.
It is potentially expensive to check if a submodule needs an update,
because a common theme to interact with submodules is to spawn a child
process for each interaction.
So let's introduce a function that checks if a submodule needs
to be checked for an update before attempting the update.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In later patches we introduce the options and flag for commands
that modify the working directory, e.g. git-checkout.
Have a central place to store such settings whether we want to update
a submodule.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need the gentle version in a later patch. As we have just one caller,
migrate the caller.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a later patch we'll use connect_work_tree_and_git_dir when the
directory for the gitlink file doesn't exist yet. This patch makes
connect_work_tree_and_git_dir safe to use for both cases of
either the git dir or the working dir missing.
To do so, we need to call safe_create_leading_directories[_const]
on both directories. However this has to happen before we construct
the absolute paths as real_pathdup assumes the directories to
be there already.
So for both the config file in the git dir as well as the .git link
file we need to
a) construct the name
b) call SCLD
c) get the absolute path
d) once a-c is done for both we can consume the absolute path
to compute the relative path to each other and store those
relative paths.
The implementation provided here puts a) and b) for both cases first,
and then performs c and d after.
One of the two users of 'connect_work_tree_and_git_dir' already checked
for the directory being there, so we can loose that check as
connect_work_tree_and_git_dir handles this functionality now.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In some situations it is useful to know if the given repository
is a submodule of another repository.
Add the flag --show-superproject-working-tree to git-rev-parse
to make it easy to find out if there is a superproject. When no
superproject exists, the output will be empty.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In 4ac9006f83 (real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and
strbuf_realpath, 2016-12-12), we changed the xstrdup(real_path())
pattern to use real_pathdup() directly.
The problem with this change is that real_path() calls
strbuf_realpath() with die_on_error = 1 while real_pathdup() calls
it with die_on_error = 0. Meaning that in cases where real_path()
causes Git to die() with an error message, real_pathdup() is silent
and returns NULL instead.
The callers, however, are ill-prepared for that change, as they expect
the return value to be non-NULL (and otherwise the function died
with an appropriate error message).
Fix this by extending real_pathdup()'s signature to accept the
die_on_error flag and simply pass it through to strbuf_realpath(),
and then adjust all callers after a careful audit whether they would
handle NULLs well.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Consider having a submodule 'sub' and a nested submodule at 'sub/nested'.
When nested is already absorbed into sub, but sub is not absorbed into
its superproject, then we need to fixup the gitfile and core.worktree
setting for 'nested' when absorbing 'sub', but we do not need to move
its git dir around.
Previously 'nested's gitfile contained "gitdir: ../.git/modules/nested";
it has to be corrected to "gitdir: ../../.git/modules/sub1/modules/nested".
An alternative I considered to do this work lazily, i.e. when resolving
"../.git/modules/nested", we would notice the ".git" being a gitfile
linking to another path. That seemed to be robuster by design, but harder
to get the implementation right. Maybe we have to do that anyway once we
try to have submodules and worktrees working nicely together, but for now
just produce 'correct' (i.e. direct) pointers.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own
git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move
the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject
instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there
will be no loss of local modifications, that is).
* sb/submodule-rm-absorb:
rm: absorb a submodules git dir before deletion
submodule: rename and add flags to ok_to_remove_submodule
submodule: modernize ok_to_remove_submodule to use argv_array
submodule.h: add extern keyword to functions
"git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.
* bw/grep-recurse-submodules:
grep: search history of moved submodules
grep: enable recurse-submodules to work on <tree> objects
grep: optionally recurse into submodules
grep: add submodules as a grep source type
submodules: load gitmodules file from commit sha1
submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is initialized
submodules: add helper to determine if a submodule is populated
real_path: canonicalize directory separators in root parts
real_path: have callers use real_pathdup and strbuf_realpath
real_path: create real_pathdup
real_path: convert real_path_internal to strbuf_realpath
real_path: resolve symlinks by hand
"git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't
"--dry-run" in the submodules.
* bw/push-dry-run:
push: fix --dry-run to not push submodules
push: --dry-run updates submodules when --recurse-submodules=on-demand
The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the
superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed
out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small
project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable
number of refs.
* hv/submodule-not-yet-pushed-fix:
submodule_needs_pushing(): explain the behaviour when we cannot answer
batch check whether submodule needs pushing into one call
serialize collection of refs that contain submodule changes
serialize collection of changed submodules
A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
* sb/submodule-embed-gitdir:
worktree: initialize return value for submodule_uses_worktrees
submodule: add absorb-git-dir function
move connect_work_tree_and_git_dir to dir.h
worktree: check if a submodule uses worktrees
test-lib-functions.sh: teach test_commit -C <dir>
submodule helper: support super prefix
submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting
In C code we have the luxury of having constants for all the important
things that are hard coded. This is the only place in C that hard codes
the git directory environment variable, so fix it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In different contexts the question "Is it ok to delete a submodule?"
may be answered differently.
In 293ab15eea (submodule: teach rm to remove submodules unless they
contain a git directory, 2012-09-26) a case was made that we can safely
ignore ignored untracked files for removal as we explicitely ask for the
removal of the submodule.
In a later patch we want to remove submodules even when the user doesn't
explicitly ask for it (e.g. checking out a tree-ish in which the submodule
doesn't exist). In that case we want to be more careful when it comes
to deletion of untracked files. As of this patch it is unclear how this
will be implemented exactly, so we'll offer flags in which the caller
can specify how the different untracked files ought to be handled.
As the flags allow the function to not die on an error when spawning
a child process, we need to find an appropriate return code for the
case when the child process could not be started. As in that case we
cannot tell if the submodule is ok to remove, we'd want to return 'false'.
As only 0 is understood as false, rename the function to invert the
meaning, i.e. the return code of 0 signals the removal of the submodule
is fine, and other values can be used to return a more precise answer
what went wrong.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
