[PATCH] grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given

["Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>]

From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>

Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().

This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in

    fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules

Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.

Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
---
    grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
    
    Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd (grep:
    optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16), using
    --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git die().
    
    This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
    ~/.gitconfig, invoking git grep --no-index either inside or outside a
    Git repository results in
    
    fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules
    
    Let's allow using these options together, so that setting
    submodule.recurse globally does not prevent using git grep --no-index.
    
    Using --recurse-submodules should not have any effect if --no-indexis
    used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
    submodule directories just like into regular directories.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-540%2Fphil-blain%2Fgrep-no-index-ignore-recurse-submodule-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-540/phil-blain/grep-no-index-ignore-recurse-submodule-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/540

 Documentation/git-grep.txt         |  3 ++-
 builtin/grep.c                     |  4 ++--
 t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh | 11 ++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index c89fb569e3..ffc3a6efdc 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ OPTIONS
 	Recursively search in each submodule that has been initialized and
 	checked out in the repository.  When used in combination with the
 	<tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
-	the parent project's <tree> object.
+	the parent project's <tree> object. This option has no effect
+	if `--no-index` is given.
 
 -a::
 --text::
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 50ce8d9461..d5f089dd41 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -1115,8 +1115,8 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (recurse_submodules && (!use_index || untracked))
-		die(_("option not supported with --recurse-submodules"));
+	if (recurse_submodules && untracked)
+		die(_("--untracked not supported with --recurse-submodules"));
 
 	if (!show_in_pager && !opt.status_only)
 		setup_pager();
diff --git a/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh b/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
index 946f91fa57..828cb3ba58 100755
--- a/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
@@ -345,7 +345,16 @@ test_incompatible_with_recurse_submodules ()
 }
 
 test_incompatible_with_recurse_submodules --untracked
-test_incompatible_with_recurse_submodules --no-index
+
+test_expect_success 'grep --recurse-submodules --no-index ignores --recurse-submodules' '
+	git grep --recurse-submodules --no-index -e "^(.|.)[\d]" >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+	submodule/a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+	submodule/sub/a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
 
 test_expect_success 'grep --recurse-submodules should pass the pattern type along' '
 	# Fixed

base-commit: bc7a3d4dc04dd719e7c8c35ebd7a6e6651c5c5b6
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