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authorStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>2017-07-24 10:36:01 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-07-25 11:05:41 -0700
commit3ef253803211f5ec38c88635bfd50f91ccd98e16 (patch)
tree34d3aecdbf83da253edb939141836edc1c316622
parent5800c63717ae35286a1441f14ffff753e01f7e2b (diff)
downloadgit-3ef253803211f5ec38c88635bfd50f91ccd98e16.tar.gz
recursive submodules: detach HEAD from new state
When a submodule is on a branch and in its superproject you run a recursive checkout, the branch of the submodule is updated to what the superproject checks out. This is very unexpected in the current model of Git as e.g. 'submodule update' always detaches the submodule HEAD. Despite having plans to have submodule HEADS not detached in the future, the current behavior is really bad as it doesn't match user expectations and it is not checking for loss of commits (only to be recovered via the reflog). Detach the HEAD unconditionally in the submodule when updating it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--submodule.c3
-rwxr-xr-xt/lib-submodule-update.sh17
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 6531c5d609..37f4a92872 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -1641,7 +1641,8 @@ int submodule_move_head(const char *path,
cp.dir = path;
prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array);
- argv_array_pushl(&cp.args, "update-ref", "HEAD", new, NULL);
+ argv_array_pushl(&cp.args, "update-ref", "HEAD",
+ "--no-deref", new, NULL);
if (run_command(&cp)) {
ret = -1;
diff --git a/t/lib-submodule-update.sh b/t/lib-submodule-update.sh
index 2d26f86800..fc406b95d7 100755
--- a/t/lib-submodule-update.sh
+++ b/t/lib-submodule-update.sh
@@ -848,6 +848,23 @@ test_submodule_switch_recursing_with_args () {
test_submodule_content sub1 origin/add_sub1
)
'
+ test_expect_success "$command: submodule branch is not changed, detach HEAD instead" '
+ prolog &&
+ reset_work_tree_to_interested add_sub1 &&
+ (
+ cd submodule_update &&
+ git -C sub1 checkout -b keep_branch &&
+ git -C sub1 rev-parse HEAD >expect &&
+ git branch -t check-keep origin/modify_sub1 &&
+ $command check-keep &&
+ test_superproject_content origin/modify_sub1 &&
+ test_submodule_content sub1 origin/modify_sub1 &&
+ git -C sub1 rev-parse keep_branch >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ test_must_fail git -C sub1 symbolic-ref HEAD
+ )
+ '
+
# Replacing a tracked file with a submodule produces a checked out submodule
test_expect_success "$command: replace tracked file with submodule checks out submodule" '
prolog &&