From c349bad72969d59758e1294b4e9964dccd967fa0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Ratiu Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:46:26 +0200 Subject: submodule: allow runtime enabling extensions.submodulePathConfig Add a new config `init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig` which allows enabling `extensions.submodulePathConfig` for new submodules by default (those created via git init or clone). Important: setting init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig = true does not globally enable `extensions.submodulePathConfig`. Existing repositories will still have the extension disabled and will require migration (for example via git submodule--helper command added in the next commit). Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/config/extensions.adoc | 4 ++++ Documentation/config/init.adoc | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc b/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc index f4f57c9114..e8d9d9a19a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/extensions.adoc @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ Git will error out if a module does not have a corresponding 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..gitdir .git/modules/`. ++ +The extension can be enabled automatically for new repositories by setting +`init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig` to `true`, for example by running +`git config --global init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig true`. worktreeConfig::: If enabled, then worktrees will load config settings from the diff --git a/Documentation/config/init.adoc b/Documentation/config/init.adoc index e45b2a8121..7b4abdaf8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/init.adoc +++ b/Documentation/config/init.adoc @@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ endif::[] See `--ref-format=` in linkgit:git-init[1]. Both the command line option and the `GIT_DEFAULT_REF_FORMAT` environment variable take precedence over this config. + +init.defaultSubmodulePathConfig:: + A boolean that specifies if `git init` and `git clone` should + automatically set `extensions.submodulePathConfig` to `true`. This + allows all new repositories to automatically use the submodule path + extension. Defaults to `false` when unset. -- cgit v1.3-5-g45d5