cmd_fetch() performs certain tasks with the assumption that objects are
fetched, but `git fetch --negotiate-only` does not fetch objects, as its
name implies. This is results in behavior that is unnecessary at best,
and incorrect at worst:
* Submodules are updated if enabled by recurse.submodules=true, but
negotiation fetch doesn't actually update the repo, so this doesn't
make sense (introduced in [1]).
* Commit graphs will be written if enabled by
fetch.writeCommitGraph=true. But according to
Documentation/config/fetch.txt [2], this should only be done if a
pack-file is downloaded.
* gc is run, but according to [3], we only do this because we expect
`git fetch` to introduce objects.
Instead of disabling these tasks piecemeal, make cmd_fetch() return
early if we know for certain that objects will not be fetched. We can
return early whenever objects are not fetched, but for now this only
considers --negotiate-only.
A similar optimization would be to skip irrelevant tasks in `git fetch
--dry-run`. This optimization was not done in this commit because a dry
run will actually fetch objects; we'd presumably still want to recurse
into submodules and run gc.
[1] 7dce19d374 (fetch/pull: Add the --recurse-submodules option, 2010-11-12)
[2] 50f26bd035 (fetch: add fetch.writeCommitGraph config setting, 2019-09-02)
[3] 131b8fcbfb (fetch: run gc --auto after fetching, 2013-01-26)
Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/fetch.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
t/t5516-fetch-push.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
index eab73d7417..883bb1b10c 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -1996,6 +1996,15 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix,
builtin_fetch_options, builtin_fetch_usage, 0);
+
+ if (negotiate_only) {
+ /*
+ * --negotiate-only should never recurse into
+ * submodules, so there is no need to read .gitmodules.
+ */
+ recurse_submodules = RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF;
+ }
+
if (recurse_submodules != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF) {
int *sfjc = submodule_fetch_jobs_config == -1
? &submodule_fetch_jobs_config : NULL;
@@ -2113,6 +2122,17 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
result = fetch_multiple(&list, max_children);
}
+ /*
+ * Skip irrelevant tasks because we know objects were not
+ * fetched.
+ *
+ * NEEDSWORK: as a future optimization, we can return early
+ * whenever objects were not fetched e.g. if we already have all
+ * of them.
+ */
+ if (negotiate_only)
+ goto cleanup;
+
if (!result && (recurse_submodules != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF)) {
struct strvec options = STRVEC_INIT;
int max_children = max_jobs;
diff --git a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
index 8212ca56dc..732031085e 100755
--- a/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
+++ b/t/t5516-fetch-push.sh
@@ -229,6 +229,18 @@ test_expect_success 'push with negotiation proceeds anyway even if negotiation f
test_i18ngrep "push negotiation failed" err
'
+test_expect_success 'push with negotiation does not attempt to fetch submodules' '
+ mk_empty submodule_upstream &&
+ test_commit -C submodule_upstream submodule_commit &&
+ git submodule add ./submodule_upstream submodule &&
+ mk_empty testrepo &&
+ git push testrepo $the_first_commit:refs/remotes/origin/first_commit &&
+ test_commit -C testrepo unrelated_commit &&
+ git -C testrepo config receive.hideRefs refs/remotes/origin/first_commit &&
+ git -c submodule.recurse=true -c protocol.version=2 -c push.negotiate=1 push testrepo refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main 2>err &&
+ ! grep "Fetching submodule" err
+'
+
test_expect_success 'push without wildcard' '
mk_empty testrepo &&
--
2.33.GIT
