When the .gitmodules file is not available in the working tree, try
using the content from the index and from the current branch. This
covers the case when the file is part of the repository but for some
reason it is not checked out, for example because of a sparse checkout.
This makes it possible to use at least the 'git submodule' commands
which *read* the gitmodules configuration file without fully populating
the working tree.
Writing to .gitmodules will still require that the file is checked out,
so check for that before calling config_set_in_gitmodules_file_gently.
Add a similar check also in git-submodule.sh::cmd_add() to anticipate
the eventual failure of the "git submodule add" command when .gitmodules
is not safely writeable; this prevents the command from leaving the
repository in a spurious state (e.g. the submodule repository was cloned
but .gitmodules was not updated because
config_set_in_gitmodules_file_gently failed).
Moreover, since config_from_gitmodules() now accesses the global object
store, it is necessary to protect all code paths which call the function
against concurrent access to the global object store. Currently this
only happens in builtin/grep.c::grep_submodules(), so call
grep_read_lock() before invoking code involving
config_from_gitmodules().
Finally, add t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh to verify that reading
from .gitmodules succeeds and that writing to it fails when the file is
not checked out.
NOTE: there is one rare case where this new feature does not work
properly yet: nested submodules without .gitmodules in their working
tree. This has been documented with a warning and a test_expect_failure
item in t7814, and in this case the current behavior is not altered: no
config is read.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx>
---
builtin/grep.c | 17 +++++-
builtin/submodule--helper.c | 6 +-
git-submodule.sh | 5 ++
submodule-config.c | 31 +++++++++-
t/t7411-submodule-config.sh | 26 ++++++++-
t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh | 16 ++++++
7 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 601f801158..7da8fef31a 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -421,11 +421,23 @@ static int grep_submodule(struct grep_opt *opt, struct repository *superproject,
struct repository submodule;
int hit;
- if (!is_submodule_active(superproject, path))
+ /*
+ * NEEDSWORK: submodules functions need to be protected because they
+ * access the object store via config_from_gitmodules(): the latter
+ * uses get_oid() which, for now, relies on the global the_repository
+ * object.
+ */
+ grep_read_lock();
+
+ if (!is_submodule_active(superproject, path)) {
+ grep_read_unlock();
return 0;
+ }
- if (repo_submodule_init(&submodule, superproject, path))
+ if (repo_submodule_init(&submodule, superproject, path)) {
+ grep_read_unlock();
return 0;
+ }
repo_read_gitmodules(&submodule);
@@ -439,7 +451,6 @@ static int grep_submodule(struct grep_opt *opt, struct repository *superproject,
* store is no longer global and instead is a member of the repository
* object.
*/
- grep_read_lock();
add_to_alternates_memory(submodule.objects->objectdir);
grep_read_unlock();
diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 28f3ccca6d..5f8a804a6e 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -2154,8 +2154,12 @@ static int module_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
return print_config_from_gitmodules(the_repository, argv[1]);
/* Equivalent to ACTION_SET in builtin/config.c */
- if (argc == 3)
+ if (argc == 3) {
+ if (!is_writing_gitmodules_ok())
+ die(_("please make sure that the .gitmodules file is in the working tree"));
+
return config_set_in_gitmodules_file_gently(argv[1], argv[2]);
+ }
usage_with_options(git_submodule_helper_usage, module_config_options);
}
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 0805fadf47..f5124bbf23 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@ cmd_add()
shift
done
+ if ! git submodule--helper config --check-writeable >/dev/null 2>&1
+ then
+ die "$(eval_gettext "please make sure that the .gitmodules file is in the working tree")"
+ fi
+
if test -n "$reference_path"
then
is_absolute_path "$reference_path" ||
diff --git a/submodule-config.c b/submodule-config.c
index 8659d97e06..69bebb721e 100644
--- a/submodule-config.c
+++ b/submodule-config.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
#include "cache.h"
+#include "dir.h"
#include "repository.h"
#include "config.h"
#include "submodule-config.h"
@@ -603,8 +604,34 @@ static void submodule_cache_check_init(struct repository *repo)
static void config_from_gitmodules(config_fn_t fn, struct repository *repo, void *data)
{
if (repo->worktree) {
- char *file = repo_worktree_path(repo, GITMODULES_FILE);
- git_config_from_file(fn, file, data);
+ struct git_config_source config_source = { 0 };
+ const struct config_options opts = { 0 };
+ struct object_id oid;
+ char *file;
+
+ file = repo_worktree_path(repo, GITMODULES_FILE);
+ if (file_exists(file)) {
+ config_source.file = file;
+ } else if (repo->submodule_prefix) {
+ /*
+ * When get_oid and config_with_options, used below,
+ * become able to work on a specific repository, this
+ * warning branch can be removed.
+ */
+ warning("nested submodules without %s in the working tree are not supported yet",
+ GITMODULES_FILE);
+ goto out;
+ } else if (get_oid(GITMODULES_INDEX, &oid) >= 0) {
+ config_source.blob = GITMODULES_INDEX;
+ } else if (get_oid(GITMODULES_HEAD, &oid) >= 0) {
+ config_source.blob = GITMODULES_HEAD;
+ } else {
+ goto out;
+ }
+
+ config_with_options(fn, data, &config_source, &opts);
+
+out:
free(file);
}
}
diff --git a/t/t7411-submodule-config.sh b/t/t7411-submodule-config.sh
index 45953f9300..2cfabb18bc 100755
--- a/t/t7411-submodule-config.sh
+++ b/t/t7411-submodule-config.sh
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ test_expect_success 'error in history in fetchrecursesubmodule lets continue' '
)
'
-test_expect_success 'reading submodules config with "submodule--helper config"' '
+test_expect_success 'reading submodules config from the working tree with "submodule--helper config"' '
(cd super &&
echo "../submodule" >expect &&
git submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url >actual &&
@@ -192,4 +192,28 @@ test_expect_success 'non-writeable .gitmodules when it is in the current branch
)
'
+test_expect_success 'reading submodules config from the index when .gitmodules is not in the working tree' '
+ ORIG=$(git -C super rev-parse HEAD) &&
+ test_when_finished "git -C super reset --hard $ORIG" &&
+ (cd super &&
+ git submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url "staged_url" &&
+ git add .gitmodules &&
+ rm -f .gitmodules &&
+ echo "staged_url" >expect &&
+ git submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'reading submodules config from the current branch when .gitmodules is not in the index' '
+ ORIG=$(git -C super rev-parse HEAD) &&
+ test_when_finished "git -C super reset --hard $ORIG" &&
+ (cd super &&
+ git rm .gitmodules &&
+ echo "../submodule" >expect &&
+ git submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
test_done
diff --git a/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh b/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..908a4e6958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t7416-submodule-sparse-gitmodules.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2018 Antonio Ospite <ao2@xxxxxx>
+#
+
+test_description='Test reading/writing .gitmodules when not in the working tree
+
+This test verifies that, when .gitmodules is in the current branch but is not
+in the working tree reading from it still works but writing to it does not.
+
+The test setup uses a sparse checkout, however the same scenario can be set up
+also by committing .gitmodules and then just removing it from the filesystem.
+'
+
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'sparse checkout setup which hides .gitmodules' '
+ echo file >file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m upstream &&
+ git clone . super &&
+ git clone super submodule &&
+ git clone super new_submodule &&
+ (cd super &&
+ git submodule add ../submodule &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m submodule &&
+ cat >.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-\EOF &&
+ /*
+ !/.gitmodules
+ EOF
+ git config core.sparsecheckout true &&
+ git read-tree -m -u HEAD &&
+ test_path_is_missing .gitmodules
+ )
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'reading gitmodules config file when it is not checked out' '
+ (cd super &&
+ echo "../submodule" >expect &&
+ git submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'not writing gitmodules config file when it is not checked out' '
+ test_must_fail git -C super submodule--helper config submodule.submodule.url newurl
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'initialising submodule when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
+ git -C super submodule init
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'showing submodule summary when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
+ git -C super submodule summary
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'updating submodule when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
+ (cd submodule &&
+ echo file2 >file2 &&
+ git add file2 &&
+ git commit -m "add file2 to submodule"
+ ) &&
+ git -C super submodule update
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'not adding submodules when the gitmodules config is not checked out' '
+ test_must_fail git -C super submodule add ../new_submodule
+'
+
+# This test checks that the previous "git submodule add" did not leave the
+# repository in a spurious state when it failed.
+test_expect_success 'init submodule still works even after the previous add failed' '
+ git -C super submodule init
+'
+
+test_done
diff --git a/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh b/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
index 7184113b9b..fa475d52fa 100755
--- a/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh
@@ -380,4 +380,20 @@ test_expect_success 'grep --recurse-submodules should pass the pattern type alon
fi
'
+# Recursing down into nested submodules which do not have .gitmodules in their
+# working tree does not work yet. This is because config_from_gitmodules()
+# uses get_oid() and the latter is still not able to get objects from an
+# arbitrary repository (the nested submodule, in this case).
+test_expect_failure 'grep --recurse-submodules with submodules without .gitmodules in the working tree' '
+ test_when_finished "git -C submodule checkout .gitmodules" &&
+ rm submodule/.gitmodules &&
+ git grep --recurse-submodules -e "(.|.)[\d]" >actual &&
+ cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+ a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+ submodule/a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+ submodule/sub/a:(1|2)d(3|4)
+ EOF
+ test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
test_done
--
2.19.0
