Re: git submodule update strange output behavior.

From: Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
Date: Jan 10, 2020, 09:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20200110101040.00b93fa7@hikaru>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtv54zcik.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

That seems only part of the problem, but yes.

It is only part of the problem because without --quiet I get the same output; that is - the top-level is still quiet, but the submodules aren't. That is out of balance imho.

On Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:54:27 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:
> 
> > In a project containing submodules, one of the submodules
> > contains a submodule itself, which in turn also contains
> > a submodule.
> >
> > Overview:
> >
> > project/foobar  [submodule]
> > project/cwm4    [submodule]
> > project/evio    [submodule]
> > project/evio/protocol/matrixssl       [submodule]
> > project/evio/protocol/matrixssl/cwm4  [submodule]
> >
> > ('protocol' is a normal subdirectory)
> >
> > Running (with or without the --quiet),
> >
> > $ git submodule --quiet update --init --recursive --remote
> > Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl
> > Fetching submodule protocol/matrixssl/cwm4
> > Fetching submodule cwm4
> >
> > This is odd (a bug imho) because
> >
> > 1) it seems to only print this fetching information for submodules
> > inside submodules, not for the top-level submodules.
> > 2) it even prints this when using --quiet
> > 3) it prints this every time (also when there is nothing more to
> > fetch).  
> 
> 
> Sounds like a symptom of (a) the top-level "git submodule update"
> knowing how to react to "--quiet" but (b) it forgets to pass down
> the "--quiet" when it recursively runs "git submodule update" in its
> submodules?
>

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>