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[PATCH v5 9/9] builtin/fetch: check for submodule updates for non branch fetches

From
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Oct 10, 2018, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID
<20181010215008.233529-10-sbeller@google.com>
In-Reply-To
<20181010215008.233529-1-sbeller@google.com>

Gerrit, the code review tool, has a different workflow than our mailing list based approach. Usually users upload changes to a Gerrit server and continuous integration and testing happens by bots. Sometimes however a user wants to checkout a change locally and look at it locally. For this use case, Gerrit offers a command line snippet to copy and paste to your terminal, which looks like

  git fetch https://<host>/gerrit refs/changes/<id> &&
  git checkout FETCH_HEAD

For Gerrit changes that contain changing submodule gitlinks, it would be easy to extend both the fetch and checkout with the '--recurse-submodules' flag, such that this command line snippet would produce the state of a change locally.

However the functionality added in the previous patch, which would ensure that we fetch the objects in the submodule that the gitlink pointed at, only works for remote tracking branches so far, not for FETCH_HEAD.

Make sure that fetching a superproject to its FETCH_HEAD, also respects the existence checks for objects in the submodule recursion.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
---
 builtin/fetch.c             | 5 ++++-
 t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/fetch.c b/builtin/fetch.c
index e3b03ad3bd..f2d9e548bf 100644
--- a/builtin/fetch.c
+++ b/builtin/fetch.c
@@ -894,11 +894,14 @@ static int store_updated_refs(const char *raw_url, const char *remote_name,
 				rc |= update_local_ref(ref, what, rm, &note,
 						       summary_width);
 				free(ref);
-			} else
+			} else {
+				check_for_new_submodule_commits(&rm->old_oid);
 				format_display(&note, '*',
 					       *kind ? kind : "branch", NULL,
 					       *what ? what : "HEAD",
 					       "FETCH_HEAD", summary_width);
+			}
+
 			if (note.len) {
 				if (verbosity >= 0 && !shown_url) {
 					fprintf(stderr, _("From %.*s\n"),
diff --git a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
index af12c50e7d..a509eabb04 100755
--- a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ test_expect_success "fetch new commits on-demand when they are not reachable" '
 	git update-ref refs/changes/2 $D &&
 	(
 		cd downstream &&
-		git fetch --recurse-submodules --recurse-submodules-default on-demand origin refs/changes/2:refs/heads/my_branch &&
+		git fetch --recurse-submodules origin refs/changes/2 &&
 		git -C submodule cat-file -t $C &&
 		git checkout --recurse-submodules FETCH_HEAD
 	)
-- 
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Previous: Stefan Beller
Message 10 of 10 in “fetch: make sure submodule oids are fetched”
  1. 0/9 fetch: make sure submodule oids are fetchedStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  2. 1/9 sha1-array: provide oid_array_filterStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  3. 2/9 submodule.c: fix indentationStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  4. 3/9 submodule.c: sort changed_submodule_names before searching itStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  5. 4/9 submodule.c: move global changed_submodule_names into fetch submodule structStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  6. 5/9 submodule.c: do not copy around submodule listStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  7. 6/9 repository: repo_submodule_init to take a submodule structStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  8. 7/9 submodule: fetch in submodules git directory instead of in worktreeStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  9. 8/9 fetch: retry fetching submodules if needed objects were not fetchedStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018
  10. 9/9 builtin/fetch: check for submodule updates for non branch fetchesStefan Beller, Oct 10, 2018

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