git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

[PATCH] Make 'submodule update' honor the 'update' setting in .gitmodules.

From
MGMikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2009, 03:36 UTC
Message-ID
<1249529769-15720-1-git-send-email-the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com>

Make the 'submodule update' command use the 'submodule.$path.update' setting in .gitmodules unless this setting is overridden in '.git/config' or with --rebase/--merge options.

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index ebed711..636023a 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -372,6 +372,15 @@ cmd_update()
 		name=$(module_name "$path") || exit
 		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
 		update_module=$(git config submodule."$name".update)
+
+		if test -z "$update_module"
+		then
+		    update_module="$(git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$name".update)"
+		    test -z "$update_module" ||
+		    git config submodule."$name".update "$update_module" ||
+		    die "Failed to register update mode for submodule path '$path'"
+		fi
+
 		if test -z "$url"
 		then
 			# Only mention uninitialized submodules when its
-- 
1.6.4
Message 1 of 1 in “Make 'submodule update' honor the 'update' setting in .gitmodules.”
  1. Make 'submodule update' honor the 'update' setting in .gitmodules.Mikhail Glushenkov, Aug 6, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.