On Tue, Sep 21 2021, Glen Choo wrote: > static const char *head; > static struct object_id head_oid; > +static int recurse_submodules = 0; Nit: just s/ = 0// will do here, and is the convention typically... > + r_start_name = strcmp(start_name, "HEAD") ? start_name : > + refs_resolve_refdup(get_main_ref_store(r), start_name, 0, NULL, NULL); IMO clearer just as an if/else. > + if (strcmp(r_start_name, "HEAD")) > + skip_prefix(r_start_name, "refs/heads/", &r_start_name); > + create_branch(r, name, r_start_name, force, clobber_head_ok, reflog, > + quiet, track); > + > + if (!recurse_submodules) { > + return; > + } Can lose the braces here... > + > + if (repo_read_index(r) < 0) > + die(_("index file corrupt")); ...Just as you do here.. > + > + for (i = 0; i < r->index->cache_nr; i++) { > + const struct cache_entry *ce = r->index->cache[i]; > + if (!S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode)) > + continue; > + sub = submodule_from_path(r, null_oid(), ce->name); > + if (repo_submodule_init(&subrepo, r, sub) < 0) { > + warning(_("Unable to initialize subrepo %s, skipping."), ce->name); > + continue; > + } > + /* > + * NEEDSWORK: branch tracking is not supported for > + * submodules because it is not possible to get the > + * remotes of a submodule. > + */ It isn't? $ git -C sha1collisiondetection/ remote -v origin https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection.git > [...] > +test_expect_success 'setup superproject and submodule' ' > + git init parent && > + test_commit -C parent bar && > + git init child && > + test_commit -C child bar && > + git -C parent submodule add ../child sub && > + git -C parent commit -m "add submodule" > +' > + > +test_expect_success '--recurse-submodules should create branches' ' > + ( > + cd parent && > + git branch --recurse-submodules abc && > + test_path_is_file .git/refs/heads/abc && > + test_path_is_file .git/modules/sub/refs/heads/abc > + ) > +' All this manual file checking should depend on REFFILES, but better yet is there a reason this can't use rev-parse? I.e. why can't we inpect this state with 'for-each-ref', 'rev-parse' and the like? Does this test need to assert that these files end up in these specific locations, or just the ref store? Ditto for the later ones. > [...] > + cd parent && > + git -c branch.autoSetupMerge=always branch --recurse-submodules ghi main && > + test_path_is_file .git/modules/sub/refs/heads/ghi && > + test "$(git config branch.ghi.remote)" = . && > + test "$(git config branch.ghi.merge)" = refs/heads/main && > + test "z$(git -C ../child config branch.ghi.remote)" = z && > + test "z$(git -C ../child config branch.ghi.merge)" = z Use test_cmp, also for this sort of thing the test "x$y" = "x" idiom isn't needed unless you've got a computer from the mid-90s or something :)