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[PATCH] Teach rm to remove submodules when given with a trailing '/'

From
Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date
Oct 28, 2012, 23:28 UTC
Message-ID
<508DBF92.9090200@web.de>
Doing a "git rm submod/" on a submodule results in an error:
	fatal: pathspec 'submod/' did not match any files
This is really inconvenient as e.g. using TAB completion in a shell on a
submodule automatically adds the trailing '/' when it completes the path
of the submodule directory. The user has then to remove the '/' herself to
make a "git rm" succeed. Doing a "git rm -r somedir/" is working fine, so
there is no reason why that shouldn't work for submodules too.

Teach git rm to not error out when a '/' is appended to the path of a submodule. Achieve this by chopping off trailing slashes from the path names given if they represent directories. Add tests to make sure that logic only applies to directories and not to files.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
---

This patch applies on top of the jl/submodule-rm branch merged into current next.

 builtin/rm.c  |  7 +++++++
 t/t3600-rm.sh | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/rm.c b/builtin/rm.c
index 2aea3b5..5381d3f 100644
--- a/builtin/rm.c
+++ b/builtin/rm.c
@@ -234,6 +234,13 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (read_cache() < 0)
 		die(_("index file corrupt"));

+	/* Remove trailing '/' from directories to find submodules in the index */
+	for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+		size_t pathlen = strlen(argv[i]);
+		if (pathlen && is_directory(argv[i]) && (argv[i][pathlen - 1] == '/'))
+			argv[i] = xmemdupz(argv[i], pathlen - 1);
+	}
+
 	pathspec = get_pathspec(prefix, argv);
 	refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET, pathspec, NULL, NULL);

diff --git a/t/t3600-rm.sh b/t/t3600-rm.sh
index 97254e8..06f6384 100755
--- a/t/t3600-rm.sh
+++ b/t/t3600-rm.sh
@@ -302,6 +302,23 @@ test_expect_success 'rm removes work tree of unmodified submodules' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '

+test_expect_success 'rm removes a submodule with a trailing /' '
+	git reset --hard &&
+	git submodule update &&
+	git rm submod/ &&
+	test ! -d submod &&
+	git status -s -uno --ignore-submodules=none > actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rm fails when given a file with a trailing /' '
+	test_must_fail git rm empty/
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'rm succeeds when given a directory with a trailing /' '
+	git rm -r frotz/
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'rm of a populated submodule with different HEAD fails unless forced' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	git submodule update &&
-- 
1.8.0.42.g3346551
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  1. Teach rm to remove submodules when given with a trailing '/'Jens Lehmann, Oct 28, 2012
  2. Johannes SixtOct 29, 2012
  3. Jens LehmannOct 30, 2012
  4. Johannes SixtOct 31, 2012
  5. Teach rm to remove submodules when given with a trailing '/'Jens Lehmann, Nov 22, 2012

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