Re: git submodule update strange output behavior.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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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?Just a shot in the dark. Not even compile tested ;-)
submodule.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 9da7181321..535bb6bf04 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -1454,11 +1454,12 @@ static int get_next_submodule(struct child_process *cp,
argv_array_pushv(&cp->args, spf->args.argv);
argv_array_push(&cp->args, default_argv);
argv_array_push(&cp->args, "--submodule-prefix");
-
strbuf_addf(&submodule_prefix, "%s%s/",
spf->prefix,
task->sub->path);
argv_array_push(&cp->args, submodule_prefix.buf);
+ if (spf->quiet)
+ argv_array_push(&cp->args, "--quiet");
spf->count++;
*task_cb = task;
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>