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[PATCH/RFC] add: listen to --ignore-errors for submodule-errors

From
Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2012, 23:21 UTC
Message-ID
<1340666519-41804-1-git-send-email-kusmabite@gmail.com>

"git add --ignore-errors -- some-submodule/foo" surprisingly throws an error saying "fatal: Path 'some-submodule/foo' is in submodule 'some-submodule/foo'".

Fix this by making sure we consult the flag, and propagate the error code properly.

Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
---
I recently tried to do the following in the msysGit-repo:
 $ git add --ignore-errors -- */.gitignore
 fatal: Path 'src/git-cheetah/.gitignore' is in submodule 'src/git-cheetah'

I was a bit puzzled by this; I explicitly specified --ignore-errors because I did not want to be stopped due to src/git-cheetah/.gitignore being located in a submodule.

The documentation seems to suggest that this is what is supposed to happen, and this seems like the most likely behavior that the user wanted. After all, there's no good reason submodules are special in this regard, no?

 builtin/add.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index 87446cf..6e6feb0 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static const char * const builtin_add_usage[] = {
 	NULL
 };
 static int patch_interactive, add_interactive, edit_interactive;
-static int take_worktree_changes;
+static int take_worktree_changes, ignore_add_errors;
 
 struct update_callback_data {
 	int flags;
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@ static char *prune_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char **pathspec, int
 	return seen;
 }
 
-static void treat_gitlinks(const char **pathspec)
+static int treat_gitlinks(const char **pathspec)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, exit_status = 0;
 
 	if (!pathspec || !*pathspec)
 		return;
@@ -172,12 +172,15 @@ static void treat_gitlinks(const char **pathspec)
 				if (len2 == len + 1)
 					/* strip trailing slash */
 					pathspec[j] = xstrndup(ce->name, len);
-				else
+				else if (!ignore_add_errors)
 					die (_("Path '%s' is in submodule '%.*s'"),
 						pathspec[j], len, ce->name);
+				else
+					exit_status = 1;
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	return exit_status;
 }
 
 static void refresh(int verbose, const char **pathspec)
@@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ static const char ignore_error[] =
 N_("The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files:\n");
 
 static int verbose = 0, show_only = 0, ignored_too = 0, refresh_only = 0;
-static int ignore_add_errors, addremove, intent_to_add, ignore_missing = 0;
+static int addremove, intent_to_add, ignore_missing = 0;
 
 static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT__DRY_RUN(&show_only, "dry run"),
@@ -418,7 +421,7 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	if (read_cache() < 0)
 		die(_("index file corrupt"));
-	treat_gitlinks(pathspec);
+	exit_status |= treat_gitlinks(pathspec);
 
 	if (add_new_files) {
 		int baselen;
-- 
1.7.11.msysgit.0.3.g3006a55
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