submodule: only preserve flags across recursive status/update invocations

Recursive invocations of submodule update/status preserve all arguments,
so executing

        git submodule update --recursive -- foo

attempts to recursively update a submodule named "foo".

Naturally, this fails as one cannot have an infinitely-deep stack of
submodules each containing a submodule named "foo". The desired behavior
is instead to update foo and then recursively update all submodules
inside of foo.

This commit accomplishes that by only saving the flags for use in the
recursive invocation.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 42 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 4d2bb37215..4fd8982894 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -374,41 +374,35 @@ cmd_init()
 cmd_update()
 {
 	# parse $args after "submodule ... update".
-	orig_args=$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")
+	orig_flags=
 	while test $# -ne 0
 	do
 		case "$1" in
 		-q|--quiet)
-			shift
 			GIT_QUIET=1
 			;;
 		-i|--init)
 			init=1
-			shift
 			;;
 		-N|--no-fetch)
-			shift
 			nofetch=1
 			;;
 		-r|--rebase)
-			shift
 			update="rebase"
 			;;
 		--reference)
 			case "$2" in '') usage ;; esac
 			reference="--reference=$2"
-			shift 2
+			orig_flags="$orig_flags $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$1")"
+			shift
 			;;
 		--reference=*)
 			reference="$1"
-			shift
 			;;
 		-m|--merge)
-			shift
 			update="merge"
 			;;
 		--recursive)
-			shift
 			recursive=1
 			;;
 		--)
@@ -422,6 +416,8 @@ cmd_update()
 			break
 			;;
 		esac
+		orig_flags="$orig_flags $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$1")"
+		shift
 	done
 
 	if test -n "$init"
@@ -500,7 +496,7 @@ cmd_update()
 
 		if test -n "$recursive"
 		then
-			(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && eval cmd_update "$orig_args") ||
+			(clear_local_git_env; cd "$path" && eval cmd_update "$orig_flags") ||
 			die "Failed to recurse into submodule path '$path'"
 		fi
 	done
@@ -733,7 +729,7 @@ cmd_summary() {
 cmd_status()
 {
 	# parse $args after "submodule ... status".
-	orig_args=$(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$@")
+	orig_flags=
 	while test $# -ne 0
 	do
 		case "$1" in
@@ -757,6 +753,7 @@ cmd_status()
 			break
 			;;
 		esac
+		orig_flags="$orig_flags $(git rev-parse --sq-quote "$1")"
 		shift
 	done
 
diff --git a/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh b/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
index 15d420fca6..d8ad25036f 100755
--- a/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
+++ b/t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh
@@ -226,6 +226,21 @@ test_expect_success 'test "status --recursive"' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+sed -e "/nested1 /s/.*/+$nested1sha1 nested1 (file2~1)/;/sub[1-3]/d" < expect > expect2
+mv -f expect2 expect
+
+test_expect_success 'ensure "status --cached --recursive" preserves the --cached flag' '
+	(
+		cd clone3 &&
+		(
+			cd nested1 &&
+			test_commit file2
+		) &&
+		git submodule status --cached --recursive -- nested1 > ../actual
+	) &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'use "git clone --recursive" to checkout all submodules' '
 	git clone --recursive super clone4 &&
 	test -d clone4/.git &&
@@ -254,4 +269,23 @@ test_expect_success 'test "update --recursive" with a flag with spaces' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'use "update --recursive nested1" to checkout all submodules rooted in nested1' '
+	git clone super clone6 &&
+	(
+		cd clone6 &&
+		test ! -d sub1/.git &&
+		test ! -d sub2/.git &&
+		test ! -d sub3/.git &&
+		test ! -d nested1/.git &&
+		git submodule update --init --recursive -- nested1 &&
+		test ! -d sub1/.git &&
+		test ! -d sub2/.git &&
+		test ! -d sub3/.git &&
+		test -d nested1/.git &&
+		test -d nested1/nested2/.git &&
+		test -d nested1/nested2/nested3/.git &&
+		test -d nested1/nested2/nested3/submodule/.git
+	)
+'
+
 test_done