Re: How to execute a command on git am/rebase/cherry pick --abort ?

> On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 14:29 +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 03:53:21PM +0300, Konstantin Kharlamov
> > wrote:
> > > (please keep me CC'ed, I'm not subscribed)
> > > 
> > > Hello!
> > > 
> > > There's a well-known problem of git not fully checking out
> > > changes
> > > while doing e.g. `git checkout` and similar commands when you
> > > have
> > > submodules. So e.g. if HEAD changes a submodule commit and you do
> > > an
> > > interactive rebase to HEAD~2, you may be lucky to find a
> > > submodule
> > > commit change in `git diff` (because if you don't get lucky, you
> > > won't
> > > notice that and commit the change to the unrelated HEAD~2).
> > > 
> > > As a workaround I have a `git submodule update` inside `post-
> > > checkout`
> > > hook.
> > > 
> > > Now, the problem is I still often finding myself having the wrong
> > > submodule ID, and I tracked down that problem to commands such as
> > > `am/rebase/cherry-pick --abort` also not updating the submodule,
> > > nor
> > > executing `post-checkout`.
> > > 
> > > I looked through `man githooks` but couldn't find any way to
> > > execute a
> > > `git submodule update` during these aborts.
> > > 
> > > Any ideas how to fix these?
> > 
> > Are you aware of the `submodule.recurse` config? If set, it should
> > cause
> > git-checkout(1) and many other commands to recurse into submodules
> > and
> > update them accordingly. This should both make your post-checkout
> > hook
> > obsolete and should also work with git-cherry-pick(1) et al.
> 
> It doesn't seem to work ☹ I've set it, and now supposed my top commit
> changes submodule. So I do a `git rebase -i HEAD~2` and "reword" the
> previous commit. After "reword"ing is done, git returns me back to
> HEAD
> commit and when I execute `git diff` I see the submodule ID changed ☹