Am 07.01.2013 02:39, schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > (just cc-ing Jens and Peter, who might be interested) I´m currently working on teaching mv to move submodules and intend to send those patches to the list after finishing submodule deinit. Please see https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/commits/mv-submodules for the current state of this series. > W. Trevor King wrote: > >> Today I had to move my first submodule, and I discovered that Git's >> support for this is pretty limited. There have been a few patch >> series attempting to address this [1,2], but none of them seems to >> have pushed through into master (although I can't put my finger on a >> reason for why). There are also some SO postings discussing this >> [3,4]. It would be nice if `git mv` worked out of the box on >> submodules. Failing that, there could be a `git submodule mv` command >> that casts the appropriate spell. Failing that, there could be a >> recipe in Documentation/git-submodule.txt. Here's the best I could >> come up with for a `git-submodule-mv.sh`: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> # usage: git-submodule-mv.sh OLD NEW >> OLD=$(realpath --relative-to . "$1") >> NEW=$(realpath --relative-to . "$2") >> SHA=$(git ls-files -s "$OLD" | sed 's|^[0-9]* \([0-9a-f]*\) .*|\1|') >> NAME=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.path' "$OLD" | >> sed -e 's|^submodule.||' -e "s|.path $OLD\$||") >> GITDIR=$(realpath --relative-to "$NEW" .git/modules/"$NAME") >> git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$NAME".path "$NEW" >> git config -f .git/modules/"$NAME"/config core.worktree "../../../$NEW" >> git rm --cached "$OLD" >> mv "$OLD" "$NEW" >> echo "gitdir: $GITDIR" > "$NEW/.git" >> git update-index --add --cacheinfo 160000 "$SHA" "$NEW" >> >> This only works from the repository root directory, and I'm sure makes >> a number of poor assumptions (e.g. old-style submodules that don't use >> `gitdir` links are not supported). It does work for some simple test >> cases. The tricky parts (e.g. path -> name conversion) are already >> worked out more robustly git-submodule.sh, so adding a new cmd_mv >> shouldn't be very difficult. >> >> Could something like this live somewhere in Git, or are we waiting for >> a more integrated solution? >> >> Cheers, >> Trevor >> >> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88720 >> [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143250 >> [4]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4323558/moving-submodules-with-git >> [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604486/how-do-i-move-an-existing-git-submodule-within-a-git-repository > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html