Show submodules as modified when they contain a dirty work tree

Until now a submodule only then showed up as modified in the supermodule
when the last commit in the submodule differed from the one in the index
or the diffed against commit of the superproject. A dirty work tree
containing new untracked or modified files in a submodule was
undetectable when looking at it from the superproject.

Now git status and git diff (against the work tree) in the superproject
will also display submodules as modified when they contain untracked or
modified files, even if the compared ref matches the HEAD of the
submodule.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 86aad653b..3f851deb6 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "diff.h"
 #include "commit.h"
 #include "revision.h"
+#include "run-command.h"
 
 int add_submodule_odb(const char *path)
 {
@@ -112,3 +113,51 @@ void show_submodule_summary(FILE *f, const char *path,
 	}
 	strbuf_release(&sb);
 }
+
+int is_submodule_modified(const char *path)
+{
+	int len;
+	struct child_process cp;
+	const char *argv[] = {
+		"status",
+		"--porcelain",
+		NULL,
+	};
+	char *env[3];
+	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+	strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s/.git/", path);
+	if (!is_directory(buf.buf)) {
+		strbuf_release(&buf);
+		/* The submodule is not checked out, so it is not modified */
+		return 0;
+
+	}
+	strbuf_reset(&buf);
+
+	strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_WORK_TREE=%s", path);
+	env[0] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
+	strbuf_addf(&buf, "GIT_DIR=%s/.git", path);
+	env[1] = strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
+	env[2] = NULL;
+
+	memset(&cp, 0, sizeof(cp));
+	cp.argv = argv;
+	cp.env = (const char *const *)env;
+	cp.git_cmd = 1;
+	cp.no_stdin = 1;
+	cp.out = -1;
+	if (start_command(&cp))
+		die("Could not run git status --porcelain");
+
+	len = strbuf_read(&buf, cp.out, 1024);
+	close(cp.out);
+
+	if (finish_command(&cp))
+		die("git status --porcelain failed");
+
+	free(env[0]);
+	free(env[1]);
+	strbuf_release(&buf);
+	return len != 0;
+}