Teach git list-objects logic to not follow gitlinks

This allows us to pack superprojects and thus clone them (but not yet
check them out on the receiving side.. That's the next patch)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/list-objects.c b/list-objects.c
index 2ba2c958e0..310f8d3908 100644
--- a/list-objects.c
+++ b/list-objects.c
@@ -25,6 +25,37 @@ static void process_blob(struct rev_info *revs,
 	add_object(obj, p, path, name);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Processing a gitlink entry currently does nothing, since
+ * we do not recurse into the subproject.
+ *
+ * We *could* eventually add a flag that actually does that,
+ * which would involve:
+ *  - is the subproject actually checked out?
+ *  - if so, see if the subproject has already been added
+ *    to the alternates list, and add it if not.
+ *  - process the commit (or tag) the gitlink points to
+ *    recursively.
+ *
+ * However, it's unclear whether there is really ever any
+ * reason to see superprojects and subprojects as such a
+ * "unified" object pool (potentially resulting in a totally
+ * humongous pack - avoiding which was the whole point of
+ * having gitlinks in the first place!).
+ *
+ * So for now, there is just a note that we *could* follow
+ * the link, and how to do it. Whether it necessarily makes
+ * any sense what-so-ever to ever do that is another issue.
+ */
+static void process_gitlink(struct rev_info *revs,
+			    const unsigned char *sha1,
+			    struct object_array *p,
+			    struct name_path *path,
+			    const char *name)
+{
+	/* Nothing to do */
+}
+
 static void process_tree(struct rev_info *revs,
 			 struct tree *tree,
 			 struct object_array *p,
@@ -56,6 +87,9 @@ static void process_tree(struct rev_info *revs,
 			process_tree(revs,
 				     lookup_tree(entry.sha1),
 				     p, &me, entry.path);
+		else if (S_ISDIRLNK(entry.mode))
+			process_gitlink(revs, entry.sha1,
+					p, &me, entry.path);
 		else
 			process_blob(revs,
 				     lookup_blob(entry.sha1),