[PATCH 0/7] git-submodule enhancements

[PATCH 0/7] git-submodule enhancements

[Ping Yin]

This patch series do following enhancements for git-submodule

  - Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/config
  - multi-level module definition
  - Don't die when command fails for one submodule 

with diffstat

 git-submodule.sh           |  316 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh |   31 ++++-

and commits

      git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message
      git-submodule: Extract functions module_info and module_url
      git-submodule: Extract absolute_url & move absolute url logic to module_clone
      git-submodule: Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/config
      git-submodule: Extract module_add from cmd_add
      git-submodule: multi-level module definition
      git-submodule: Don't die when command fails for one submodule

[PATCH 1/7] git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message

[Ping Yin]

When "git submodule status" command tries to show the name of the
submodule HEAD revision more descriptively, but the submodule
repository lacked a suitable tag to do so, it leaked "fatal: cannot
describe" message to the UI.  Squelch it by using '--always'.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 5f1d5ef..2f40620 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ set_name_rev () {
 		cd "$1" && {
 			git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
 			git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --contains --tags "$2"
+			git describe --contains --tags --always "$2"
 		}
 	) )
 	test -z "$revname" || revname=" ($revname)"
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 2/7] git-submodule: Extract functions module_info and module_url

[Ping Yin]

module_info is extracted to remove the logic redundance which acquires
module names and urls by path filter in several places.

module_url is also extracted to prepare for an alternative logic to get url by
module name.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 2f40620..7545d1a 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -82,6 +82,25 @@ module_name()
        echo "$name"
 }
 
+module_url() {
+	git config submodule.$1.url
+}
+
+module_info() {
+	git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep -e '^160000 ' |
+	while read mode sha1 stage path
+	do
+		name=$(module_name "$path")
+		if test -n "$name"
+		then
+			url=$(module_url "$name")
+			echo "$sha1	$path	$name	$url"
+		else
+			echo "$sha1	$path		"
+		fi
+	done
+}
+
 #
 # Clone a submodule
 #
@@ -232,12 +251,11 @@ cmd_init()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep -e '^160000 ' |
-	while read mode sha1 stage path
+	module_info "$@" |
+	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
+		test -n "$name" || exit
 		# Skip already registered paths
-		name=$(module_name "$path") || exit
-		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
 		test -z "$url" || continue
 
 		url=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule."$name".url)
@@ -286,11 +304,10 @@ cmd_update()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep -e '^160000 ' |
-	while read mode sha1 stage path
+	module_info "$@" |
+	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
-		name=$(module_name "$path") || exit
-		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
+		test -n "$name" || exit
 		if test -z "$url"
 		then
 			# Only mention uninitialized submodules when its
@@ -537,11 +554,10 @@ cmd_status()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep -e '^160000 ' |
-	while read mode sha1 stage path
+	module_info "$@" |
+	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
-		name=$(module_name "$path") || exit
-		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
+		test -n "$name" || exit
 		if test -z "$url" || ! test -d "$path"/.git
 		then
 			say "-$sha1 $path"
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 3/7] git-submodule: Extract absolute_url & move absolute url logic to module_clone

[Ping Yin]

Extract function absolute_url to remove code redundant and inconsistence in
cmd_init and cmd_add when resolving relative url/path to absolute one.

Also move resolving absolute url logic from cmd_add to module_clone which
results in a litte behaviour change: cmd_update originally doesn't
resolve absolute url but now it will.

This behaviour change breaks t7400 which uses relative url './.subrepo'.
However, this test originally doesn't mean to test relative url, so fix
the url as '.subrepo'.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh           |   41 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 7545d1a..0e14078 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ resolve_relative_url ()
 	echo "$remoteurl/$url"
 }
 
+# Resolve relative url/path to absolute one
+absolute_url () {
+	case "$1" in
+	./*|../*)
+		# dereference source url relative to parent's url
+		url="$(resolve_relative_url $1)" ;;
+	*)
+		# Turn the source into an absolute path if it is local
+		url=$(get_repo_base "$1") ||
+		url=$1
+		;;
+	esac
+	echo "$url"
+}
+
 #
 # Map submodule path to submodule name
 #
@@ -112,7 +127,7 @@ module_info() {
 module_clone()
 {
 	path=$1
-	url=$2
+	url=$(absolute_url "$2")
 
 	# If there already is a directory at the submodule path,
 	# expect it to be empty (since that is the default checkout
@@ -195,21 +210,7 @@ cmd_add()
 			die "'$path' already exists and is not a valid git repo"
 		fi
 	else
-		case "$repo" in
-		./*|../*)
-			# dereference source url relative to parent's url
-			realrepo="$(resolve_relative_url $repo)" ;;
-		*)
-			# Turn the source into an absolute path if
-			# it is local
-			if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
-				repo="$base"
-			fi
-			realrepo=$repo
-			;;
-		esac
-
-		module_clone "$path" "$realrepo" || exit
+		module_clone "$path" "$repo" || exit
 		(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) ||
 		die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
 	fi
@@ -262,13 +263,7 @@ cmd_init()
 		test -z "$url" &&
 		die "No url found for submodule path '$path' in .gitmodules"
 
-		# Possibly a url relative to parent
-		case "$url" in
-		./*|../*)
-			url="$(resolve_relative_url "$url")"
-			;;
-		esac
-
+		url=$(absolute_url "$url")
 		git config submodule."$name".url "$url" ||
 		die "Failed to register url for submodule path '$path'"
 
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 2ef85a8..e5d59b8 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ test_expect_success 'init should register submodule url in .git/config' '
 	then
 		echo "[OOPS] init succeeded but submodule url is wrong"
 		false
-	elif ! git config submodule.example.url ./.subrepo
+	elif ! git config submodule.example.url .subrepo
 	then
 		echo "[OOPS] init succeeded but update of url failed"
 		false
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 4/7] git-submodule: Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/config

[Ping Yin]

Originally, the submodule workflow enforces 'git init' in the beginning
which copies submodule config info from .gitmodules to $GIT_DIR/config.
Then all subcommands except 'init' and 'add' fetch submodule info from
$GIT_DIR/config and .gitmodules can be discarded.

And there may be inconsistence between .git/config and .gitmodules when
always using 'git init' at first. If upstream .gitmodules changes, it is
not easy to sync the changes to $GIT_DIR/config. Running 'git init' again
may not help.

Since .git/config has a whole copy of .gitmodules, the user has no easy
way to know which entries should follow the upstream changes and which
entires shouldn't.

Actually, .gitmodules which only acts as info hints can and should play
a more important and essential role.

As an analogy to .gitignore and .git/info/excludes which are for colleagues'
and individual wishes separately, .gitmodules is for common requirements and
$GIT_DIR/config is for special requirements.

This patch implements a fall back strategy to satify both common and
special requirements as follows.

$GIT_DIR/config only keeps submodule info different from $GIT_DIR/config.
And the info from $GIT_DIR/config take higher precedence. The code first
consults $GIT_DIR/config and then fall back on in-tree .gitmodules file.

With this patch, init subcommand becomes not forcefull and less meaningful.
And now it becomes just a tool to help users copy info to $GIT_DIR/config
(and then modify it) only when they need.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh           |    9 ++++-----
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 0e14078..bd2934a 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ module_name()
 }
 
 module_url() {
-	git config submodule.$1.url
+	git config submodule.$1.url ||
+	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule.$1.url
 }
 
 module_info() {
@@ -256,12 +257,10 @@ cmd_init()
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
 		test -n "$name" || exit
-		# Skip already registered paths
-		test -z "$url" || continue
-
-		url=$(GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule."$name".url)
 		test -z "$url" &&
 		die "No url found for submodule path '$path' in .gitmodules"
+		# Skip already registered paths
+		git config submodule.$name.url && continue
 
 		url=$(absolute_url "$url")
 		git config submodule."$name".url "$url" ||
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index e5d59b8..d9b48f7 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -174,6 +174,35 @@ test_expect_success 'status should be "up-to-date" after update' '
 	git-submodule status | grep "^ $rev1"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'status should be "modified" after submodule reset --hard HEAD@{1}' '
+	cd init &&
+	git reset --hard HEAD@{1}
+	rev2=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+	cd .. &&
+	if test -z "$rev2"
+	then
+		echo "[OOPS] submodule git rev-parse returned nothing"
+		false
+	fi &&
+	git-submodule status | grep "^+$rev2"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'update should checkout rev1 when fall back' '
+	git-config --unset submodule.example.url &&
+	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule.example.url .subrepo &&
+	git-submodule update init &&
+	head=$(cd init && git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+	if test -z "$head"
+	then
+		echo "[OOPS] submodule git rev-parse returned nothing"
+		false
+	elif test "$head" != "$rev1"
+	then
+		echo "[OOPS] init did not checkout correct head"
+		false
+	fi
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'checkout superproject with subproject already present' '
 	git-checkout initial &&
 	git-checkout master
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 5/7] git-submodule: Extract module_add from cmd_add

[Ping Yin]

cmd_add will later handle the case adding multiple modules, so extract
module_add to add a single module.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index bd2934a..dacd99a 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -155,34 +155,7 @@ module_clone()
 #
 # optional branch is stored in global branch variable
 #
-cmd_add()
-{
-	# parse $args after "submodule ... add".
-	while test $# -ne 0
-	do
-		case "$1" in
-		-b | --branch)
-			case "$2" in '') usage ;; esac
-			branch=$2
-			shift
-			;;
-		-q|--quiet)
-			quiet=1
-			;;
-		--)
-			shift
-			break
-			;;
-		-*)
-			usage
-			;;
-		*)
-			break
-			;;
-		esac
-		shift
-	done
-
+module_add() {
 	repo=$1
 	path=$2
 
@@ -226,6 +199,44 @@ cmd_add()
 }
 
 #
+# Add a new submodule to the working tree, .gitmodules and the index
+#
+# $@ = repo [path]
+#
+# optional branch is stored in global branch variable
+#
+cmd_add()
+{
+	# parse $args after "submodule ... add".
+	while test $# -ne 0
+	do
+		case "$1" in
+		-b | --branch)
+			case "$2" in '') usage ;; esac
+			branch=$2
+			shift
+			;;
+		-q|--quiet)
+			quiet=1
+			;;
+		--)
+			shift
+			break
+			;;
+		-*)
+			usage
+			;;
+		*)
+			break
+			;;
+		esac
+		shift
+	done
+
+	module_add "$1" "$2"
+}
+
+#
 # Register submodules in .git/config
 #
 # $@ = requested paths (default to all)
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 6/7] git-submodule: multi-level module definition

[Ping Yin]

This patch introduces multi-level module definition and '--module-name'
option to designate submodules by logical names instead of path filters.
Then the init/update/status/add subcommand is enhanced combined with
this option.

The multi-level module definition in .gitmodules was first suggested by
Linus and etc. in mails "Let .git/config specify the url for submodules"
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48939).

Following shows an example of such a .gitmodules which finally comes
from the group notation of 'git remote' which is suggested by Johannes
Schindelin.

.gitmodules with multiple level of indirection
------------------------------------------------------
[submodules]
	service = crawler search
	crawler = util imcrawter
	search = util imsearch
[submodule "util"]
	url = git://xyzzy/util.git
[submodule "imsearch"]
	path = search/imsearch
	url = git://xyzzy/imsearch.git
[submodule "imcrawler"]
	path = crawler/imcrawter
	url = git://xyzzy/imcrawter.git
------------------------------------------------------

By adding the 'submodules' section, we can define multi-level modules
in an infinite levels of indirection.

The "-m|--module-name" option is introduced with which submodules are
designated by logical names instead of real paths as following shows.

Identical commands forms with/without "--module-name"
---------------------------------------------------
$ git submodule XXX util imcrawler              (1)
$ git submodule XXX -n crawler                  (2)
$ git submodule XXX util imcrawler imsearch     (3)
$ git submodule XXX -n service                  (4)
$ git submodule XXX -n crawler search           (5)
---------------------------------------------------
* XXX represents status, update or init, but not add
* (1) and (2) are identical conditionally (explained below)
* (3), (4) and (5) are identical conditionally

There are still minor difference between these two forms.

In the no "--module-name" form, the path parameter may be not the real
submodule path, and it just acts as the filter for real submodule paths.
While in the "--module-name" form, the name parameter must be the logical
name, and the real paths corresponding to the logical name may be neither
a submodule path nor even existent.

This patch handles such a path for different subcommands as follows.

 - status: Output 0{40} as the sha1. Doing this can remind the user to
   add the path as submodule or delete the path from .gitmodules.
 - update: Skip that path and issue a "Not a submodule" warning
 - init: Also init for that path

So in the example above, commands (1) and (2) are identical only when
util and imcrawler are already submodules.

The add subcommand is also enhanced.

The former workflow to add submodules is adding one by one with
"git submodule add url path" which then modifies .gitmodules. However,
sometimes it is more convenient to work in the reverse way: edit
.gitmodules first and then add submodules in batch.

Now "git submodule add --module-name modulename" can help us to do that.
It will find all submodules corresponding to the logical name and add them
in batch by using the paths and urls from .gitmodules. Of course, it will
skip the paths which have already been submodules.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index dacd99a..79fb30f 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2007 Lars Hjemli
 
-USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached] \
+USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached] [--module-name] \
 [add <repo> [-b branch]|status|init|update|summary [-n|--summary-limit <n>] [<commit>]] \
 [--] [<path>...]"
 OPTIONS_SPEC=
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ command=
 branch=
 quiet=
 cached=
+use_module_name=
 
 #
 # print stuff on stdout unless -q was specified
@@ -97,12 +98,23 @@ module_name()
        echo "$name"
 }
 
+module_path() {
+	git config submodule.$1.path ||
+	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule.$1.path ||
+	echo "$1"
+}
+
 module_url() {
 	git config submodule.$1.url ||
 	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule.$1.url
 }
 
 module_info() {
+	if test -n "$use_module_name"
+	then
+		module_info_by_name "$@"
+		return
+	fi
 	git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep -e '^160000 ' |
 	while read mode sha1 stage path
 	do
@@ -118,6 +130,50 @@ module_info() {
 }
 
 #
+# List all submodule info line by line by given names as follows
+# sha1<tab>path<tab>name<tab>url
+#
+# Here we assume that module names and paths don't contain space
+# characters
+#
+# $@ = module names
+# When names is not given, list all module info
+#
+module_info_by_name() {
+	if test $# = 0
+	then
+		names=$(
+		{
+			git config --get-regexp 'submodule.*.url'
+			git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp 'submodule.*.url'
+		} | sed 's/submodule.\(.*\).url .*$/\1/' 2>/dev/null
+		)
+	else
+		names=$(module_children_names "$@")
+	fi
+	for name in $names
+	do
+		url=$(module_url "$name") || continue
+		path=$(module_path "$name")
+		sha1=$(git ls-files --stage "$path" |
+			grep "$path$" | grep '^160000' | awk '{print $2}')
+		test -z "$sha1" && sha1=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+		echo "$sha1	$path	$name	$url"
+	done
+}
+
+module_children_names() {
+	for name
+	do
+		echo "$name"
+		module_children_names $(
+			git config "submodules.$name"
+			git config -f .gitmodules "submodules.$name"
+		)
+	done | sort -u
+}
+
+#
 # Clone a submodule
 #
 # Prior to calling, cmd_update checks that a possibly existing
@@ -233,7 +289,17 @@ cmd_add()
 		shift
 	done
 
-	module_add "$1" "$2"
+	if test -n "$use_module_name"
+	then
+		module_info "$@" |
+		while read sha1 path name url
+		do
+			module_add "$url" "$path"
+		done
+	else
+		module_add "$1" "$2"
+	fi
+
 }
 
 #
@@ -313,7 +379,11 @@ cmd_update()
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
 		test -n "$name" || exit
-		if test -z "$url"
+		if test $sha1 = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+		then
+			say "Not a submodule: $name @ $path"
+			continue
+		elif test -z "$url"
 		then
 			# Only mention uninitialized submodules when its
 			# path have been specified
@@ -558,12 +628,15 @@ cmd_status()
 		esac
 		shift
 	done
-
 	module_info "$@" |
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
 		test -n "$name" || exit
-		if test -z "$url" || ! test -d "$path"/.git
+		if test $sha1 = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+		then
+			say "*$sha1 $path"
+			continue
+		elif test -z "$url" || ! test -d "$path"/.git
 		then
 			say "-$sha1 $path"
 			continue;
@@ -609,6 +682,9 @@ do
 	--cached)
 		cached="$1"
 		;;
+	-m|--module-name)
+		use_module_name=1
+		;;
 	--)
 		break
 		;;
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

[PATCH 7/7] git-submodule: Don't die when command fails for one submodule

[Ping Yin]

When handling multiple modules, init/update/status/add subcommand will
exit when it fails for one submodule. This patch makes the subcommand
continue bypassing the failure and keep right exit status.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 79fb30f..e78d797 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -193,15 +193,19 @@ module_clone()
 	# succeed but the rmdir will fail. We might want to fix this.
 	if test -d "$path"
 	then
-		rmdir "$path" 2>/dev/null ||
-		die "Directory '$path' exist, but is neither empty nor a git repository"
+		! rmdir "$path" 2>/dev/null &&
+		say "Directory '$path' exist, but is neither empty nor a git repository" &&
+		return 1
 	fi
 
 	test -e "$path" &&
-	die "A file already exist at path '$path'"
+	say "A file already exist at path '$path'" &&
+	return 1
 
-	git-clone -n "$url" "$path" ||
-	die "Clone of '$url' into submodule path '$path' failed"
+	! git-clone -n "$url" "$path" &&
+	say "Clone of '$url' into submodule path '$path' failed" &&
+	return 1
+	:
 }
 
 #
@@ -227,7 +231,8 @@ module_add() {
 	fi
 
 	git ls-files --error-unmatch "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1 &&
-	die "'$path' already exists in the index"
+	say "'$path' already exists in the index" &&
+	return 1
 
 	# perhaps the path exists and is already a git repo, else clone it
 	if test -e "$path"
@@ -237,21 +242,26 @@ module_add() {
 		then
 			echo "Adding existing repo at '$path' to the index"
 		else
-			die "'$path' already exists and is not a valid git repo"
+			say "'$path' already exists and is not a valid git repo"
+			return 1
 		fi
 	else
-		module_clone "$path" "$repo" || exit
-		(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) ||
-		die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
+		module_clone "$path" "$repo" || return 1
+		! (unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) &&
+		say "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'" &&
+		return 1
 	fi
 
-	git add "$path" ||
-	die "Failed to add submodule '$path'"
+	! git add "$path" &&
+	say "Failed to add submodule '$path'" &&
+	return 1
 
 	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule."$path".path "$path" &&
 	GIT_CONFIG=.gitmodules git config submodule."$path".url "$repo" &&
-	git add .gitmodules ||
-	die "Failed to register submodule '$path'"
+	! git add .gitmodules &&
+	say "Failed to register submodule '$path'" &&
+	return 1
+	:
 }
 
 #
@@ -292,14 +302,17 @@ cmd_add()
 	if test -n "$use_module_name"
 	then
 		module_info "$@" |
+		{
+		exit_status=0
 		while read sha1 path name url
 		do
-			module_add "$url" "$path"
+			module_add "$url" "$path" || exit_status=1
 		done
+		test $exit_status = 0
+		}
 	else
 		module_add "$1" "$2"
 	fi
-
 }
 
 #
@@ -331,20 +344,30 @@ cmd_init()
 	done
 
 	module_info "$@" |
+	{
+	exit_status=0
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
-		test -n "$name" || exit
+		test -z "$name" && exit_status=1 && continue
 		test -z "$url" &&
-		die "No url found for submodule path '$path' in .gitmodules"
+		say "No url found for submodule path '$path' in .gitmodules" &&
+		exit_status=1 &&
+		continue
 		# Skip already registered paths
 		git config submodule.$name.url && continue
 
 		url=$(absolute_url "$url")
 		git config submodule."$name".url "$url" ||
-		die "Failed to register url for submodule path '$path'"
+		{
+		say "Failed to register url for submodule path '$path'"
+		exit_status=1
+		continue
+		}
 
 		say "Submodule '$name' ($url) registered for path '$path'"
 	done
+	exit $exit_status
+	}
 }
 
 #
@@ -376,9 +399,11 @@ cmd_update()
 	done
 
 	module_info "$@" |
+	{
+	exit_status=0
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
-		test -n "$name" || exit
+		test -z "$name" && exit_status=1 && continue
 		if test $sha1 = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 		then
 			say "Not a submodule: $name @ $path"
@@ -394,23 +419,33 @@ cmd_update()
 
 		if ! test -d "$path"/.git
 		then
-			module_clone "$path" "$url" || exit
+			! module_clone "$path" "$url" && exit_status=1 && continue
 			subsha1=
 		else
 			subsha1=$(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" &&
 				git rev-parse --verify HEAD) ||
-			die "Unable to find current revision in submodule path '$path'"
+			{
+				say "Unable to find current revision in submodule path '$path'"
+				exit_status=1
+				continue
+			}
 		fi
 
 		if test "$subsha1" != "$sha1"
 		then
 			(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git-fetch &&
 				git-checkout -q "$sha1") ||
-			die "Unable to checkout '$sha1' in submodule path '$path'"
+			{
+				say "Unable to checkout '$sha1' in submodule path '$path'"
+				exit_status=1
+				continue
+			}
 
 			say "Submodule path '$path': checked out '$sha1'"
 		fi
 	done
+	exit $exit_status
+	}
 }
 
 set_name_rev () {
@@ -629,9 +664,11 @@ cmd_status()
 		shift
 	done
 	module_info "$@" |
+	{
+	exit_status=0
 	while read sha1 path name url
 	do
-		test -n "$name" || exit
+		test -z "$name" && exit_status=1 && continue
 		if test $sha1 = 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
 		then
 			say "*$sha1 $path"
@@ -654,6 +691,8 @@ cmd_status()
 			say "+$sha1 $path$revname"
 		fi
 	done
+	exit $exit_status
+	}
 }
 
 # This loop parses the command line arguments to find the
-- 
1.5.4.4.653.g7cf1e

Re: [PATCH 6/7] git-submodule: multi-level module definition

[Ping Yin]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:

>  In the no "--module-name" form, the path parameter may be not the real
>  submodule path, and it just acts as the filter for real submodule paths.
>  While in the "--module-name" form, the name parameter must be the logical
>  name, and the real paths corresponding to the logical name may be neither
>  a submodule path nor even existent.
>
>  This patch handles such a path for different subcommands as follows.
>
>   - status: Output 0{40} as the sha1. Doing this can remind the user to
>    add the path as submodule or delete the path from .gitmodules.
>   - update: Skip that path and issue a "Not a submodule" warning

Sometime it's useful to also update (or clone) the non-submodule
instead of "Not as submodule" warning. So we can add a --force option
to allow this kind of behaviour.

There are cases that we want to clone a group of repositories in batch.

One way is to put all urls and paths of these repositories in
.gitmodules which form a submodule group, for example "all", and then
run "git submodule --module-name update --force all" which will clone
all the repositories in batch even if they are not submodules yet.

Another way is use the "git submodule --module-name recurse clone"
(recurse patch series sent many days ago but not accept yet). But this
needs some discuss since we have no place for the module group name
"all" as the argument.

There may be other ways. i don't know which way is better and don't
care much now. What i care is whether the submodule subcommand should
operate on the non-submodule path.

More precisely, with --module-name, we can designate a group of names
by a logical group name. However, some paths corresponding to these
names may not be submodules yet. So should the submodule subcommands
(especially update for now) operate on these paths?

-- 
Ping Yin

Re: [PATCH 0/7] git-submodule enhancements

[Ping Yin]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch series do following enhancements for git-submodule
>
>   - Fall back on .gitmodules if info not found in $GIT_DIR/config
>   - multi-level module definition
>   - Don't die when command fails for one submodule

And it's built on next


-- 
Ping Yin