When initializing a submodule set the submodule.<name>.active config to
true if the module hasn't already been configured to be active by some
other means (e.g. a pathspec set in submodule.active).
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/submodule--helper.c | 7 +++++++
t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index e95738b42..a574596cb 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
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 3af1c00ff..cf77a3a35 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -1256,4 +1256,15 @@ test_expect_success 'clone and subsequent updates correctly auto-initialize subm
test_cmp expect2 actual
'
+test_expect_success 'init properly sets the config' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf multisuper_clone" &&
+ git clone --recurse-submodules="." \
+ --recurse-submodules=":(exclude)sub0" \
+ multisuper multisuper_clone &&
+
+ git -C multisuper_clone submodule init -- sub0 sub1 &&
+ git -C multisuper_clone config --get submodule.sub0.active &&
+ test_must_fail git -C multisuper_clone config --get submodule.sub1.active
+'
+
test_done
--
2.12.0.367.g23dc2f6d3c-goog