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Re: What should "git submodule summary" give before an initial commit?

From
Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date
Mar 4, 2010, 00:36 UTC
Message-ID
<4B8F00AA.5050007@web.de>
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Am 03.03.2010 22:58, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> "git status" collects the changes for both the index (since HEAD) and the
> working tree files (since the index), summarizes and shows them.  When it
> is run before the first commit is made, it uses a logic different from the
> one used in the normal case to gather the information on the index, as we
> don't have HEAD yet, i.e. instead of "diff-index HEAD", we would run
> "diff-index emtpy-tree".
> 
> How should status.submodulesummary integrate into this framework?
> 
> Currently, it blindly runs "git submodule summary", and it gives an extra
> error message about HEAD not being a commit, and people (me included)
> misguidedly have spent time on squelching the message.
> 
> But I think that was _all wrong_.  I do not think "git submodule summary"
> should fail even when you haven't made your first commit.
> 
> If you are before the first commit, we say everything you have in the
> index is a change you are adding with your next commit (which will be your
> initial one).  If you added a submodule commit to the index, shouldn't
> "git submodule summary" say "you'll be committing the addition of this
> subproject"?  IOW, shouldn't we be comparing an empty tree to find added
> submodules, like this, when we haven't made the first commit?
> 
>  git-submodule.sh |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
> index 5869c00..0397f9d 100755
> --- a/git-submodule.sh
> +++ b/git-submodule.sh
> @@ -556,10 +556,10 @@ cmd_summary() {
>  	if rev=$(git rev-parse -q --verify --default HEAD ${1+"$1"})
>  	then
>  		head=$rev
> -		shift
> +		test $# = 0 || shift
>  	elif test -z "$1" -o "$1" = "HEAD"
>  	then
> -		return
> +		head=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
>  	else
>  		head="HEAD"
>  	fi
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Your patch fixes "git submodule summary" in a freshly created repo for me.

But to make "git status" with status.submodulesummary work as expected, i need something like the following patch on top of current pu (because "git submodule summary --cached HEAD" returns no changes in a freshly created repo):

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 5807fc3..6769c2e 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -459,11 +459,21 @@ static void wt_status_print_changed(struct wt_status *s)
 	wt_status_print_trailer(s);
 }

-static void wt_status_print_submodule_summary(struct wt_status *s, int uncommitted)
+static void wt_status_print_submodule_summary(struct wt_status *s, int uncommitted, int initial)
 {
 	struct child_process sm_summary;
 	char summary_limit[64];
 	char index[PATH_MAX];
+	const char *ref = NULL;
+	if (!uncommitted) {
+		if (s->amend)
+			ref = "HEAD^";
+		else
+			if (initial)
+				ref = "4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904";
+			else
+				ref = "HEAD";
+	}
 	const char *env[] = { index, NULL };
 	const char *argv[] = {
 		"submodule",
@@ -472,7 +482,7 @@ static void wt_status_print_submodule_summary(struct wt_status *s, int uncommitt
 		"--for-status",
 		"--summary-limit",
 		summary_limit,
-		uncommitted ? NULL : (s->amend ? "HEAD^" : "HEAD"),
+		ref,
 		NULL
 	};

@@ -581,8 +591,8 @@ void wt_status_print(struct wt_status *s)
 	wt_status_print_unmerged(s);
 	wt_status_print_changed(s);
 	if (s->submodule_summary) {
-		wt_status_print_submodule_summary(s, 0);  /* staged */
-		wt_status_print_submodule_summary(s, 1);  /* unstaged */
+		wt_status_print_submodule_summary(s, 0, s->is_initial);  /* staged */
+		wt_status_print_submodule_summary(s, 1, 0);  /* unstaged */
 	}
 	if (s->show_untracked_files)
 		wt_status_print_untracked(s);
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