On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 5:23 PM Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There was a proposal to "re-attach HEAD" in the submodule, i.e. > > if the branch branch points at the same commit, we don't need > > a detached HEAD, but could go with the branch instead. > > if I got the idea right, if we are talking about any branch, it > would also non-deterministic since who knows what left over branch(es) > point to that commit. Not sure if I would have used that ;) I would think we'd rather want to have it deterministic, i.e. something like 1) record branch name of the submodule 2) update submodules HEAD to to superprojects gitlink 3) if recorded branch (1) matches the sha1 of detached HEAD, have HEAD point to the branch instead. You notice a small inefficiency here as we write HEAD twice, so it could be reworded as: 1) compare superprojects gitlink with the submodules branch 2a) if equal, set submodules HEAD to branch 2b) if unequal set HEAD to gitlink value, resulting in detached HEAD Note that this idea of reattaching reflects the idea (a) below. > > a) "stay on submodule branch (i.e. HEAD still points at $branch), and > > reset --hard" such that the submodule has a clean index and at that $branch > > or > > b) "stay on submodule branch (i.e. HEAD still points at $branch), but $branch is > > set to the gitlink from the superproject, and then a reset --hard > > will have the worktree set to it as well. > NB "gitlink" -- just now discovered the thing for me. Thought it would be > called a subproject echoing what git diff/log -p shows for submodule commits. The terminology is messy: The internal representation in Gits object model is a "gitlink" entry in a tree object. Once we have a .gitmodules entry, we call it submodule. The term 'subproject' is a historic artifact and will likely not be changed in the diff output (or format-patch), because these diffs can be applied using git-am for example. That makes the diff output effectively a transport protocol, and changing protocols is hard if you have no versioning in them. More in https://git-scm.com/docs/gitsubmodules (a rather recent new write of a man page, going into concepts). > > > right -- I meant the local changes and indeed reset --recurse-submodules > > > indeed seems to recurse nicely. Then the undesired effect remaining only > > > the detached HEAD > > > For that we may want to revive discussions in > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20170501180058.8063-5-sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > well, isn't that one requires a branch to be specified in .gitmodules? Ah good point. > > git reset --hard --recursive=hard,keep-branch PREVIOUSPOINT > > 'keep-branch' (given aforementioned keeping the specified in .gitmodules > branch) might be confusing. Also what if a submodule already in a > detached HEAD? IMHO --recursive=hard, and just saying that it would do > "reset --hard", is imho sufficient. (that is why I like pure > --reset hard since it doesn't care and neither does anything to the > branch) For that we might want to first do the git submodule update --reset-hard which runs reset --hard inside the submodule, no matter which branch the submodule is on (if any) and resets to the given superproject sha1. See git-submodule.sh in git.git[1] in cmd_update. We'd need to add a command line flag (`--reset-hard` would be the obvious choice?) which would set the `update` variable, which then is evaluated to what needs to be done in the submodule, which in that case would be the hard reset. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/git-submodule.sh#L606 Once that is done we'd want to add a test case, presumably in t/t7406-submodule-update.sh > > > I would have asked for > > > > git revert --recursive <commit>... > > > git rebase --recursive [-i] ... > > > > which I also frequently desire (could elaborate on the use cases etc). > > > These would be nice to have. It would be nice if you'd elaborate on the > > use cases for future reference in the mailing list archive. :-) > > ok, will try to do so ;-) In summary: they are just a logical extension > of git support for submodules for anyone actively working with > submodules to keep entire tree in sync. Then quite often the need for > reverting a specific commit (which also has changes reflected in > submodules) arises. The same with rebase, especially to trim away some > no longer desired changes reflected in submodules. > > the initial "git submodule update --reset-hard" is pretty much a > crude workaround for some of those cases, so I would just go earlier in > the history, and redo some things, whenever I could just drop or revert > some selected set of commits. That makes sense. Do you want to give the implementation a try for the --reset-hard switch? > ah... so it is only submodule command which has --recursive, and the > rest have --recurse-submodules when talking about recursing into > submodules? I don't think we were that cautious in development as it was done by different people at different times. There is also just `--submodule` for the diff family, for reference: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180905225828.17782-1-sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx/
