What if we wanted to drop sha1collisiondetection/ as a submodule and
replace it with a copy of what's now in sha1dc/? I ran into this with
another project, but here's a way to reproduce it on git.git:
(
rm -rf /tmp/git &&
git clone [email protected]:git/git.git /tmp/git
cd /tmp/git &&
git tag nuke-before &&
git submodule update --init &&
git rm -r .gitmodules sha1collisiondetection &&
git commit -m"Nuke sha1dc submodule" &&
cp -Rvp sha1dc sha1collisiondetection &&
git add sha1collisiondetection &&
git commit -m"Now it's not a submodule" &&
git tag nuke-after &&
git reset --hard nuke-before &&
git submodule update --init && # skip this and the below won't fail
git reset --hard nuke-after && # Emulate someone doing a pull
git ls-tree HEAD | grep sha1collisiondetection && # OK, shows "tree"
not "commit"
test $(git rev-parse HEAD) == $(git -C sha1collisiondetection/ log -1
--pretty=format:%H) && echo OK || echo WTF
)
This results in a really bizarre state where according to ls-tree
sha1collisiondetection is a tree at the current commit:
040000 tree 81583289d96bdde4b366c243ab524ea28d895ea5
sha1collisiondetection
But git still believes there's a submodule there for some reason, and
shows the log for the upstream sha1collisiondetection project:
git -C sha1collisiondetection/ log -1
commit 19d97bf (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master)
Merge: 3f14d1b c93f0b4
Author: Dan Shumow <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jul 1 12:36:15 2017 -0700
Merge pull request #37 from avar/fixup-pull-request-34
Fix endian detection logic for Sparc, little endian BSD etc.
Doing:
git submodule deinit sha1collisiondetection
Does nothing to help, then I thought it might be:
git config -f .git/config -l|grep ^submodule
submodule.sha1collisiondetection.active=true
submodule.sha1collisiondetection.url=https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection.git
But running:
git config --remove-section submodule.sha1collisiondetection
Doesn't help either, neither does removing the index:
rm .git/index &&
git reset --hard
If you then do:
rm -rf .git/modules
You'll get this error:
git -C sha1collisiondetection/ log -1
fatal: Not a git repository:
/tmp/git/sha1collisiondetection/../.git/modules/sha1collisiondetection
But I can't see what's still referencing it.
This problem is avoided if, as noted with a comment I skip:
git submodule update --init
But I shouldn't need to remember to de-init a submodule before moving to
a new commit that doesn't have it, least I end up in some seemingly
unrecoverable state.
Am I missing something obvious here?
