Re: git submodule update strange output behavior.

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2020, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqtv54zcik.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200109192040.46aaa01e@hikaru>

Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:

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> 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?