[GSoC][PATCH v4 1/2] t7407: test "submodule foreach --recursive" from subdirectory added

Additional test cases added to the submodule-foreach test suite to check the submodule foreach --recursive behavior from a subdirectory as this was missing from the test suite.

Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Prathamesh Chavan <pc44800@gmail.com>
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It was observed that after porting the submodule subcommand to
C, it passed all the test from the existing test-suite.
But since there was some observation made, where the output of
the orignal submodule foreach subcommand wasn't matching to that
of the newly ported function, this test has been added.

After which, it can been seen that the patch fails in test #9 of t7407-submodule-foreach, which is the newly added test to that suite. The main reason of adding this test was to bring the behavior of $path for the submodule foreach --recursive case.

The observation made was as follows:

For a project - super containing dir (not a submodule) and a submodule sub which contains another submodule subsub. When we run a command from super/dir:

git submodule foreach "echo \$path-\$sm_path"

actual results: Entering '../sub' ../sub-../sub Entering '../sub/subsub' ../subsub-../subsub

ported function's result: Entering '../sub' sub-../sub Entering '../sub/subsub' subsub-../sub/subsub

This is occurring since in cmd_foreach of git-submodule.sh when we use to recurse, we call cmd_foreach and hence the process ran in the same shell. Because of this, the variable $wt_prefix is set only once which is at the beginning of the submodule foreach execution. wt_prefix=$(git rev-parse --show-prefix)

And since sm_path and path are set using $wt_prefix as : sm_path=$(git submodule--helper relative-path "$sm_path" "$wt_prefix") && path=$sm_path It differs with the value of displaypath as well.

This make the value of $path confusing and I also feel it deviates from its documentation: $path is the name of the submodule directory relative to the superproject.

But since in refactoring the code, we wish to maintain the code in same way, we need to pass wt_prefix on every recursive call, which may result in complex C code. Another option could be to first correct the $path value in git-submodule.sh and then port the updated cmd_foreach.

 t/t7407-submodule-foreach.sh | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)