From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:21:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] fetch/pull: Don't recurse into a submodule when commits are already present
Message-ID: <7vaahm5oby.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D656FC7.2060201@web.de>

Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:

> diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
> index b477c3c..ddb0a29 100644
> --- a/submodule.c
> +++ b/submodule.c
> @@ -263,6 +263,13 @@ void set_config_fetch_recurse_submodules(int value)
>  	config_fetch_recurse_submodules = value;
>  }
>
> +static int is_submodule_commit_present(const char *path, unsigned char sha1[20])
> +{
> +	if (!add_submodule_odb(path))
> +		return lookup_commit_reference(sha1) != 0;
> +	return 0;
> +}

Don't you need to prove the usual "reachabile from the refs" here, instead
of just the presense of a commit object?

If not, why not?