Change `git submodule add' to add the new submodule <path> with `git
add --force'.
I keep my /etc in .git with a .gitignore that contains just
"*". I.e. `git status' will ignore everything that isn't in the tree
already. When I do:
git submodule add <url> hlagh
git-submodule will get as far as checking out the remote repository
into hlagh, but it'll die right afterwards when it fails to add the
new path:
The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:
hlagh
Use -f if you really want to add them.
fatal: no files added
Failed to add submodule 'hlagh'
Currently there's no way to add a submodule in this situation other
than to remove the ignored path from the .gitignore while I'm at it.
That's silly, when you run `git submodule add' you're explicitly
saying that you want to add something *new* to the repository. Instead
it should just add the path with `git add --force'.
Initially I implemented this by adding new -f and --force options to
`git submodule add'. But if the --force option isn't supplied it'll
get as far as cloning `hlagh', but won't add it.
So the first thing the user has to do is to remove `hlagh' and then
try again with the --force option.
That sucks, it should just add the path to begin with. I can't think
of any usecase where you've gone through the trouble of typing out
`git submodule add ..', but wish to be overriden by a `gitignore'. The
submodule semantics should be more like `git init', not `git add'.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++++
git-submodule.sh | 4 ++--
t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index cdabfd2..76a832a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ is the superproject and submodule repositories will be kept
together in the same relative location, and only the
superproject's URL needs to be provided: git-submodule will correctly
locate the submodule using the relative URL in .gitmodules.
++
+The submodule will be added with "git add --force <path>". I.e. git
+doesn't care if the new path is in a `gitignore`. Your invocation of
+"git submodule add" is considered enough to override it.
status::
Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index d9950c2..ad2417d 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ cmd_add()
) || die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
fi
- git add "$path" ||
+ git add --force "$path" ||
die "Failed to add submodule '$path'"
git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$path".path "$path" &&
git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$path".url "$repo" &&
- git add .gitmodules ||
+ git add --force .gitmodules ||
die "Failed to register submodule '$path'"
}
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 97ff074..d9f2785 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ test_expect_success 'setup - hide init subdirectory' '
'
test_expect_success 'setup - repository to add submodules to' '
- git init addtest
+ git init addtest &&
+ git init addtest-ignore
'
# The 'submodule add' tests need some repository to add as a submodule.
@@ -85,6 +86,27 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule add' '
test_cmp empty untracked
'
+test_expect_success 'submodule add to .gitignored path' '
+ echo "refs/heads/master" >expect &&
+ >empty &&
+
+ (
+ cd addtest-ignore &&
+ # Does not use test_commit due to the ignore
+ echo "*" > .gitignore &&
+ git add --force .gitignore &&
+ git commit -m"Ignore everything" &&
+ git submodule add "$submodurl" submod &&
+ git submodule init
+ ) &&
+
+ rm -f heads head untracked &&
+ inspect addtest/submod ../.. &&
+ test_cmp expect heads &&
+ test_cmp expect head &&
+ test_cmp empty untracked
+'
+
test_expect_success 'submodule add --branch' '
echo "refs/heads/initial" >expect-head &&
cat <<-\EOF >expect-heads &&
--
1.7.2.rc1.192.g262ff.dirty
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