When initializing a submodule set the submodule.<name>.active config to true to indicate that the submodule is active. Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/submodule--helper.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c index a3acc9e4c..b669ed031 100644 --- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c +++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c @@ -361,6 +361,13 @@ static void init_submodule(const char *path, const char *prefix, int quiet) die(_("No url found for submodule path '%s' in .gitmodules"), displaypath); + /* Set active flag for the submodule being initialized */ + if (!is_submodule_initialized(path)) { + strbuf_reset(&sb); + strbuf_addf(&sb, "submodule.%s.active", sub->name); + git_config_set_gently(sb.buf, "true"); + } + /* * Copy url setting when it is not set yet. * To look up the url in .git/config, we must not fall back to -- 2.12.0.246.ga2ecc84866-goog