Re: Question related to submodule and different recurse config options

[Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>]

Hi Pieter-Jan,

Le 2022-09-08 à 11:01, Pieter-Jan Busschaert a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to set my git config like this (fetch.recurseSubmodules =
> on-demand) and (submodule.recurse = true). The goal is to do fetch &
> submodule update if-and-only-if the pointed-to commit changes.
> 

That makes sense.

> However, it seems with this config a git pull will act as if
> fetch.recurseSubmodules was set to true (instead of on-demand) and do
> a fetch on all of the submodules. For me this does not correspond to
> the documentation (which says the value of submodule.recurse will only
> be used if fetch.recurseSubmodules is NOT set). I would have thought
> that this recent commit:
> https://github.com/git/git/commit/ed54e1b31ad1a9a35ef6c23024d325a2c4d85221
> describes this scenario and fixed it, but I still have that behaviour
> (git 2.37.3). Maybe that patch only covered true/false settings for
> fetch.recurseSubmodules and doesn't properly handle the on-demand
> setting?
> 
> Is what I see the intended behaviour?
> Is it possible in any way to configure git to only fetch & update
> submodules if the pointed-to commit changes?

I'm not sure if that's the bug you are hitting, but I remember noticing that
the actual order of the two configs in the config file mattered (whereas it should
not). With this:

    fetch.recurseSubmodules = on-demand
    submodule.recurse = true

the "submodule.recurse = true" is read last and then the "on-demand" setting for fetch
is effectively ignored.

With this order:

    submodule.recurse = true
    fetch.recurseSubmodules = on-demand

I think it would work correctly. But I might be misremembering (I did not try it).

Cheers,

Philippe.