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authorAdrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>2026-01-12 20:46:27 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2026-01-12 11:56:56 -0800
commite14349d58eeae0eac23bf7f740d22f51fc90a49d (patch)
tree43f98c789332a4d7e9ba861b1d32501eff127328
parentc349bad72969d59758e1294b4e9964dccd967fa0 (diff)
downloadgit-e14349d58eeae0eac23bf7f740d22f51fc90a49d.tar.xz
submodule--helper: add gitdir migration command
Manually running "git config submodule.<name>.gitdir .git/modules/<name>" for each submodule can be impractical, so add a migration command to submodule--helper to automatically create configs for all submodules as required by extensions.submodulePathConfig. The command calls create_default_gitdir_config() which validates the gitdir paths before adding the configs. Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/config/extensions.adoc6
-rw-r--r--builtin/submodule--helper.c61
-rwxr-xr-xt/t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension.sh67
3 files changed, 132 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc b/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc
index e8d9d9a19a..2aef3315b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@ Git will error out if a module does not have a corresponding
`submodule.<name>.gitdir` set.
+
Existing (pre-extension) submodules need to be migrated by adding the missing
-config entries. This is done manually for now, e.g. for each submodule:
-`git config submodule.<name>.gitdir .git/modules/<name>`.
+config entries. This can be done manually, e.g. for each submodule:
+`git config submodule.<name>.gitdir .git/modules/<name>`, or via the
+`git submodule--helper migrate-gitdir-configs` command which iterates over all
+submodules and attempts to migrate them.
+
The extension can be enabled automatically for new repositories by setting
`init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig` to `true`, for example by running
diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index ef37352534..fa4f5cc159 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -1270,6 +1270,66 @@ static int module_gitdir(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix UNUSED,
return 0;
}
+static int module_migrate(int argc UNUSED, const char **argv UNUSED,
+ const char *prefix UNUSED, struct repository *repo)
+{
+ struct strbuf module_dir = STRBUF_INIT;
+ DIR *dir;
+ struct dirent *de;
+ int repo_version = 0;
+
+ repo_git_path_append(repo, &module_dir, "modules/");
+
+ dir = opendir(module_dir.buf);
+ if (!dir)
+ die(_("could not open '%s'"), module_dir.buf);
+
+ while ((de = readdir(dir))) {
+ struct strbuf gitdir_path = STRBUF_INIT;
+ char *key;
+ const char *value;
+
+ if (is_dot_or_dotdot(de->d_name))
+ continue;
+
+ strbuf_addf(&gitdir_path, "%s/%s", module_dir.buf, de->d_name);
+ if (!is_git_directory(gitdir_path.buf)) {
+ strbuf_release(&gitdir_path);
+ continue;
+ }
+ strbuf_release(&gitdir_path);
+
+ key = xstrfmt("submodule.%s.gitdir", de->d_name);
+ if (!repo_config_get_string_tmp(repo, key, &value)) {
+ /* Already has a gitdir config, nothing to do. */
+ free(key);
+ continue;
+ }
+ free(key);
+
+ create_default_gitdir_config(de->d_name);
+ }
+
+ closedir(dir);
+ strbuf_release(&module_dir);
+
+ repo_config_get_int(the_repository, "core.repositoryformatversion", &repo_version);
+ if (repo_version == 0 &&
+ repo_config_set_gently(repo, "core.repositoryformatversion", "1"))
+ die(_("could not set core.repositoryformatversion to 1.\n"
+ "Please set it for migration to work, for example:\n"
+ "git config core.repositoryformatversion 1"));
+
+ if (repo_config_set_gently(repo, "extensions.submodulePathConfig", "true"))
+ die(_("could not enable submodulePathConfig extension. It is required\n"
+ "for migration to work. Please enable it in the root repo:\n"
+ "git config extensions.submodulePathConfig true"));
+
+ repo->repository_format_submodule_path_cfg = 1;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
struct sync_cb {
const char *prefix;
const char *super_prefix;
@@ -3653,6 +3713,7 @@ int cmd_submodule__helper(int argc,
NULL
};
struct option options[] = {
+ OPT_SUBCOMMAND("migrate-gitdir-configs", &fn, module_migrate),
OPT_SUBCOMMAND("gitdir", &fn, module_gitdir),
OPT_SUBCOMMAND("clone", &fn, module_clone),
OPT_SUBCOMMAND("add", &fn, module_add),
diff --git a/t/t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension.sh b/t/t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension.sh
index 03ac165de9..89e2feab8b 100755
--- a/t/t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension.sh
+++ b/t/t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension.sh
@@ -279,4 +279,71 @@ test_expect_success '`git clone --recurse-submodules` respects init.defaultSubmo
)
'
+test_expect_success 'submodule--helper migrates legacy modules' '
+ (
+ cd upstream &&
+
+ # previous submodules exist and were not migrated yet
+ test_must_fail git config submodule.sub1.gitdir &&
+ test_must_fail git config submodule.sub2.gitdir &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub1 &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub2 &&
+
+ # run migration
+ git submodule--helper migrate-gitdir-configs &&
+
+ # test that migration worked
+ git config submodule.sub1.gitdir >actual &&
+ echo ".git/modules/sub1" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ git config submodule.sub2.gitdir >actual &&
+ echo ".git/modules/sub2" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+ # repository extension is enabled after migration
+ git config extensions.submodulePathConfig >actual &&
+ echo "true" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
+test_expect_success '`git clone --recurse-submodules` works after migration' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf repo-clone-recursive" &&
+
+ # test with extension disabled after the upstream repo was migrated
+ git clone --recurse-submodules upstream repo-clone-recursive &&
+ (
+ cd repo-clone-recursive &&
+
+ # init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig was disabled before clone, so
+ # the repo extension config should also be off, the migration ignored
+ test_must_fail git config extensions.submodulePathConfig &&
+
+ # modules should look like there was no migration done
+ test_must_fail git config submodule.sub1.gitdir &&
+ test_must_fail git config submodule.sub2.gitdir &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub1 &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub2
+ ) &&
+ rm -rf repo-clone-recursive &&
+
+ # enable the extension, then retry the clone
+ test_config_global init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig true &&
+ git clone --recurse-submodules upstream repo-clone-recursive &&
+ (
+ cd repo-clone-recursive &&
+
+ # repository extension is enabled
+ git config extensions.submodulePathConfig >actual &&
+ echo "true" >expect &&
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+
+ # gitdir configs exist for submodules
+ git config submodule.sub1.gitdir &&
+ git config submodule.sub2.gitdir &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub1 &&
+ test_path_is_dir .git/modules/sub2
+ )
+'
+
test_done