From: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Maarten Billemont" <lhunath@gmail.com>,
"Jens Lehmann" <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andreas Köhler" <andi5.py@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:01:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E039BA7.8060302@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7h8c4nv3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On 06/23/2011 10:35 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Maarten Billemont <lhunath@gmail.com> writes:
>> When I initialize 2/3 submodules of my git repository and do git
>> submodule update, all is fine: Only the 2 submodules that I need are
>> updated.
>>
>> When I run a git submodule sync to update the URLs that may have been
>> changed in .gitmodules, it ADDS the URL of the submodule that was NOT
>> initialized, thus "initializing" it.
>>
>> Now, when I run git submodule update, it starts checking out the third
>> module and my workflow is broken.
> See 33f072f (submodule sync: Update "submodule.<name>.url" for empty
> directories, 2010-10-08), which introduced this behaviour.
>
> cmd_update considers anything that has submodule.<name>.url defined as
> "the user is interested", so I suspect "git submodule sync" should not do
> this.
What about a compromise? Change git-submodule-sync to skip submodules
which are not already initialized.
I have a patch to do this, but I need to test it still. If it sounds
right, I'll try to submit it later today.
Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-23 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-23 11:13 ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config Maarten Billemont
2011-06-23 13:39 ` Phil Hord
2011-06-23 14:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 19:14 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-23 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 23:10 ` Andreas Köhler
2011-06-24 6:17 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-24 4:13 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2011-06-24 6:20 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-06-25 23:26 ` [PATCH] submodule add: always initialize .git/config entry Jens Lehmann
2011-06-30 0:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-25 20:41 ` [PATCH v2] submodule sync: do not auto-vivify uninteresting submodule Jens Lehmann
2011-06-23 20:01 ` Phil Hord [this message]
2011-06-23 21:47 ` ''git submodule sync'' should not add uninitialized submodules to .git/config Junio C Hamano
2011-06-23 23:06 ` Phil Hord
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