There are cases where users do VPATH builds with the source directory being on a read-only volume. In such a case they have to manually run the command 'git-submodule.sh ...modules...' ahead of time. When checking for status we should not then write into the source dir.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- scripts/git-submodule.sh | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/git-submodule.sh b/scripts/git-submodule.sh index 039f782d81..21909ea413 100755 --- a/scripts/git-submodule.sh +++ b/scripts/git-submodule.sh @@ -39,10 +39,9 @@ fi case "$command" in status) test -f "$substat" || exit 1 - trap "rm -f ${substat}.tmp" EXIT - $GIT submodule status $modules > "${substat}.tmp" - test $? -ne 0 && error "failed to query git submodule status" - diff "${substat}" "${substat}.tmp" >/dev/null + CURSTATUS=`$GIT submodule status $modules` + OLDSTATUS=`cat $substat` + test "$CURSTATUS" = "$OLDSTATUS" exit $? ;; update) -- 2.13.6