When push.recurseSubmodules is set to "check" or "on-demand", the transport
layer tries to determine if a submodule needs pushing. This check is done
by walking all remote refs that are known.
For remotes we only store the refs/heads/* (and tags), which doesn't
include all commits. In e.g. Gerrit commits often end up at refs/changes/*
(that we do not store) when pushing to refs/for/master (which we also do
not store). So a workflow such as the following still fails:
$ git -C <submodule> push origin HEAD:refs/for/master
$ git push origin HEAD:refs/for/master
The following submodule paths contain changes that can
not be found on any remote:
submodule
Please try
git push --recurse-submodules=on-demand
or cd to the path and use
git push
to push them to a remote.
Trying to push with --recurse-submodules=on-demand would run into
the same problem. To fix this issue
1) specifically mention that we looked for branches on the remote.
2) advertise pushing without recursing into submodules. ("Use this
command to make the error message go away")
While at it, remove some empty lines, as they blow up the error message.
Reported-by: Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
transport.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index 3e8799a611..2445bf0dca 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -883,14 +883,14 @@ static void die_with_unpushed_submodules(struct string_list *needs_pushing)
int i;
fprintf(stderr, _("The following submodule paths contain changes that can\n"
- "not be found on any remote:\n"));
+ "not be found on any remote branch:\n"));
for (i = 0; i < needs_pushing->nr; i++)
fprintf(stderr, " %s\n", needs_pushing->items[i].string);
- fprintf(stderr, _("\nPlease try\n\n"
- " git push --recurse-submodules=on-demand\n\n"
- "or cd to the path and use\n\n"
- " git push\n\n"
- "to push them to a remote.\n\n"));
+ fprintf(stderr, _("\nSuppress submodule checks via\n"
+ " git push --no-recurse-submodules\n"
+ "or cd to the path and use\n"
+ " git push\n"
+ "to push them to a remote.\n"));
string_list_clear(needs_pushing, 0);
--
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