From: "W. Trevor King" <wk...@tremily.us>
In another branch of the submodule thread Francesco kicked off, I
mentioned that we could store the preferred local submodule branch on
a per-superbranch level if we used the
.git/modules/<submodule-name>/config for local overrides [1]. Here's
a patch series that greatly extends my v2 "submodule: Respect
requested branch on all clones" series [2] to also support automatic,
recursive submodule checkouts, as I outlined here [3]. After this
series, I can get through:
# create the subproject
mkdir subproject &&
(
cd subproject &&
git init &&
echo 'Hello, world' > README &&
git add README &&
git commit -m 'Subproject v1'
) &&
# create the superproject
mkdir superproject
(
cd superproject &&
git init &&
git submodule add ../subproject submod &&
git config -f .gitmodules submodule.submod.update merge &&
git commit -am 'Superproject v1' &&
( # 'submodule update' doesn't look in .gitmodules (yet [4]) for a
# default update mode. Copy submodule.submod.update over to
# .git/config
git submodule init
)
) &&
# start a feature branch on the superproject
(
cd superproject &&
#git checkout -b my-feature --recurse-submodules &&
( # 'git submodule checkout --recurse-submodules' doesn't exist yet, so...
git checkout -b my-feature &&
git submodule checkout -b --gitmodules
) &&
(
cd submod &&
echo 'Add the subproject side of this feature' > my-feature &&
git add my-feature &&
git commit -m 'Add my feature to the subproject'
) &&
echo 'Add the superproject side of this feature' > my-feature &&
git add my-feature &&
git commit -am 'Add the feature to the superproject'
) &&
# meanwhile, the subproject has been advancing
(
cd subproject &&
echo 'Goodbye, world' >> README &&
git commit -am 'Subproject v2'
) &&
# we need to get that critical advance into the superproject quick!
(
cd superproject &&
# update the master branch
#git checkout --recurse-submodules master
( # 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' doesn't exist yet [5,6].
# Even with that patch, 'git checkout' won't respect
# submodule.<name>.local-branch without further work.
git checkout master &&
git submodule checkout
) &&
git submodule update --remote &&
git commit -am 'Catch submod up with Subproject v2' &&
# update the my-feature branch
#git checkout --recurse-submodules my-feature &&
( # 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' doesn't exist yet [5,6].
git checkout my-feature &&
git submodule checkout
) &&
git submodule update --remote &&
git commit -am 'Catch submod up with Subproject v2' &&
# what does the history look like?
(
cd submod &&
git --no-pager log --graph --date-order --oneline --decorate --all
# * 16d9e3e (HEAD, my-feature) Merge commit
'f5e134d5747ee4a206e96d8c017f92f5b29a07f3' into my-feature
# |\
# | * f5e134d (origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Subproject v2
# * | 0a1cd07 Add my feature to the subproject
# |/
# * c2d32ba Subproject v1
) &&
printf 'master: ' &&
git ls-tree master submod &&
# master: 160000 commit f5e134d5747ee4a206e96d8c017f92f5b29a07f3 submod
printf 'my-feature: ' &&
git ls-tree my-feature submod
# my-feature: 160000 commit 16d9e3ea2fb57e7a166587203abdb328f90895d1 submod
)
git --version
# git version 1.8.5.2.237.g01c62c6
I think the first three patches are fairly solid. The last one gets
through the above script, but I'd need a more thorough test suite
before I trusted it. I tried to be detailed in the commit messages,
but of course, we'd want some user-facing documentation if we actually
merged something like this series. I'm sending it to the list mostly
to explain my current views and re-focus debate [1].
[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240240
[2]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239967
[3]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240192
[4]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239246
[5]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/239695
[6]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/240117
Cheers,
Trevor
W. Trevor King (4):
submodule: Add helpers for configurable local branches
submodule: Teach 'update' to preserve local branches
submodule: Teach 'add' about a configurable local-branch
submodule: Add a new 'checkout' command
git-submodule.sh | 152 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 138 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
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1.8.5.2.237.g01c62c6
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