From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
'git branch --recurse-submodules start from-here' fails if any submodule
present in 'from-here' is not yet cloned (under
submodule.propagateBranches=true). We then give this advice:
"You may try updating the submodules using 'git checkout from-here && git submodule update --init'"
If 'submodule.recurse' is set, 'git checkout from-here' will also fail since
it will try to recursively checkout the submodules.
Improve the advice by adding '--no-recurse-submodules' to the checkout
command.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx>
---
branch: improve advice when --recurse-submodules fails
Hi Glen,
This is a small improvement I thought about when looking at that code
recently.
Cheers,
Philippe.
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1464%2Fphil-blain%2Fbranch-recurse-improve-advice-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1464/phil-blain/branch-recurse-improve-advice-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1464
branch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/branch.c b/branch.c
index d182756827f..e5614b53b36 100644
--- a/branch.c
+++ b/branch.c
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ void create_branches_recursively(struct repository *r, const char *name,
_("submodule '%s': unable to find submodule"),
submodule_entry_list.entries[i].submodule->name);
if (advice_enabled(ADVICE_SUBMODULES_NOT_UPDATED))
- advise(_("You may try updating the submodules using 'git checkout %s && git submodule update --init'"),
+ advise(_("You may try updating the submodules using 'git checkout --no-recurse-submodules %s && git submodule update --init'"),
start_commitish);
exit(code);
}
base-commit: 4dbebc36b0893f5094668ddea077d0e235560b16
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