Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Allow ls-files to recognize submodules in order to retrieve a list of
> files from a repository's submodules. This is done by forking off a
> process to recursively call ls-files on all submodules.
While I see why "ls-files --recurse-submodules" sounds nice ("hey, I
can get list of _all_ the files here"), and I am quite happy with
the quality of implementation (not just the code but its
documentation and test) especially from a first-time contributor, I
am not quite sure what the utility of this new feature would be,
especially given that the command is a plumbing, i.e. meant to be a
useful building block for scripts.
If I get
$ git ls-files --recurse-submodules
Makefile
lib/Makefile
lib/hello.py
main.py
goodbye.py
out of the command, what can I do with it without knowing where the
submodule boundaries are? It's not like I can just do
git ls-files --recurse-submodule |
while read path
do
git update-index --add "$path"
done
when "lib/" is a submodule. Instead, I'd need to go to "lib/" and
then add "Makefile" and "hello.py" from there.
> diff --git a/t/t3007-ls-files-recurse-submodules.sh b/t/t3007-ls-files-recurse-submodules.sh
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..78deded
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/t/t3007-ls-files-recurse-submodules.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
> +...
> +test_expect_success 'setup directory structure and submodules' '
> +...
> +'
> +
> +cat >expect <<EOF
> +.gitmodules
> +a
> +b/b
> +submodule/c
> +EOF
We used to do that when we didn't know better.
Please don't do things outside test_expect_* block, especially in a
new script.