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[PATCH v9 3/4] submodule: fix sync handling of some relative superproject origin URLs

From
Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2012, 11:57 UTC
Message-ID
<1338983850-9872-4-git-send-email-jon.seymour@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<1338983850-9872-1-git-send-email-jon.seymour@gmail.com>

When the origin URL of the superproject is itself relative, git submodule sync configures the remote.origin.url configuration property of the submodule with a path that is relative to the work tree of the superproject rather than the work tree of the submodule.

To fix this an 'up_path' that navigates from the work tree of the submodule to the work tree of the superproject needs to be prepended to the URL otherwise calculated.

Correct handling of superproject origin URLs like foo, ./foo and ./foo/bar is left to a subsequent patch since an additional change is required to handle these cases.

The documentation of resolve_relative_url() is expanded to give a more thorough description of the function's objective.

Signed-off-by: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh          | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 t/t7403-submodule-sync.sh |  8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 64a70d6..227ba59 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,22 @@ nofetch=
 update=
 prefix=
 
-# Resolve relative url by appending to parent's url
+# The function takes at most 2 arguments. The first argument is the
+# URL that navigates to the submodule origin repo. When relative, this URL
+# is relative to the superproject origin URL repo. The second up_path 
+# argument, if specified, is the relative path that navigates 
+# from the submodule working tree to the superproject working tree.
+#
+# The output of the function is the origin URL of the submodule.
+#
+# The output will either be an absolute URL or filesystem path (if the
+# superproject origin URL is an absolute URL or filesystem path,
+# respectively) or a relative file system path (if the superproject
+# origin URL is a relative file system path).
+#
+# When the output is a relative file system path, the path is either
+# relative to the submodule working tree, if up_path is specified, or to
+# the superproject working tree otherwise.
 resolve_relative_url ()
 {
 	remote=$(get_default_remote)
@@ -39,6 +54,17 @@ resolve_relative_url ()
 	url="$1"
 	remoteurl=${remoteurl%/}
 	sep=/
+	up_path="$2"
+
+	case "$remoteurl" in
+	*:*|/*)
+		is_relative=
+		;;
+	*)
+		is_relative=t
+		;;
+	esac
+
 	while test -n "$url"
 	do
 		case "$url" in
@@ -64,7 +90,7 @@ resolve_relative_url ()
 			break;;
 		esac
 	done
-	echo "$remoteurl$sep${url%/}"
+	echo "${is_relative:+${up_path}}$remoteurl$sep${url%/}"
 }
 
 #
@@ -964,14 +990,26 @@ cmd_sync()
 		# Possibly a url relative to parent
 		case "$url" in
 		./*|../*)
-			url=$(resolve_relative_url "$url") || exit
+			# rewrite foo/bar as ../.. to find path from
+			# submodule work tree to superproject work tree
+			up_path="$(echo "$sm_path" | sed "s/[^/][^/]*/../g")" &&
+			# guarantee a trailing /
+			up_path=${up_path%/}/ &&
+			# path from submodule work tree to submodule origin repo
+			sub_origin_url=$(resolve_relative_url "$url" "$up_path") &&
+			# path from superproject work tree to submodule origin repo
+			super_config_url=$(resolve_relative_url "$url") || exit
+			;;
+		*)
+			sub_origin_url="$url"
+			super_config_url="$url"
 			;;
 		esac
 
 		if git config "submodule.$name.url" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
 		then
 			say "$(eval_gettext "Synchronizing submodule url for '\$name'")"
-			git config submodule."$name".url "$url"
+			git config submodule."$name".url "$super_config_url"
 
 			if test -e "$sm_path"/.git
 			then
@@ -979,7 +1017,7 @@ cmd_sync()
 				clear_local_git_env
 				cd "$sm_path"
 				remote=$(get_default_remote)
-				git config remote."$remote".url "$url"
+				git config remote."$remote".url "$sub_origin_url"
 			)
 			fi
 		fi
diff --git a/t/t7403-submodule-sync.sh b/t/t7403-submodule-sync.sh
index 56b933d..98bc74a 100755
--- a/t/t7403-submodule-sync.sh
+++ b/t/t7403-submodule-sync.sh
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form foo' '
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form foo/bar' '
+test_expect_success '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form foo/bar' '
 	(cd relative-clone &&
 	 git remote set-url origin foo/bar &&
 	 git submodule sync &&
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ./foo/b
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo' '
+test_expect_success '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo' '
 	(cd relative-clone &&
 	 git remote set-url origin ../foo &&
 	 git submodule sync &&
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo'
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo/bar' '
+test_expect_success '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo/bar' '
 	(cd relative-clone &&
 	 git remote set-url origin ../foo/bar &&
 	 git submodule sync &&
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo/
 	)
 '
 
-test_expect_failure '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo/bar with deeply nested submodule' '
+test_expect_success '"git submodule sync" handles origin URL of the form ../foo/bar with deeply nested submodule' '
 	(cd relative-clone &&
 	 git remote set-url origin ../foo/bar &&
 	 mkdir -p a/b/c &&
-- 
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  3. 2/4 submodule: document failure to handle relative superproject origin URLsJon Seymour, Jun 6, 2012
  4. 3/4 submodule: fix sync handling of some relative superproject origin URLsJon Seymour, Jun 6, 2012
  5. 4/4 submodule: fix handling of superproject origin URLs like foo, ./foo and ./foo/barJon Seymour, Jun 6, 2012

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