submodule: Add --force option for git submodule update

By default git submodule update runs a simple checkout on submodules that
are not up-to-date. If the submodules contains modified or untracked
files, the command may exit sanely with an error:

  $ git submodule update
  error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by
  checkout:
	  file
  Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches.
  Aborting
  Unable to checkout '1b69c6e55606b48d3284a3a9efe4b58bfb7e8c9e' in
  submodule path 'test1'

In order to reset a whole git submodule tree, a user has to run first 'git
submodule foreach --recursive git checkout -f' and then run 'git submodule
update'.

This patch adds a --force option for the update command (only used for
submodules without --rebase or --merge options). It passes the --force
option to git checkout which will throw away the local changes.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin <nmorey@kalray.eu>
Acked-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
index fa9d23aa3..5d24d9ff7 100755
--- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
+++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
@@ -74,6 +74,29 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update detaching the HEAD ' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'submodule update should fail due to local changes' '
+	(cd super/submodule &&
+	 git reset --hard HEAD~1 &&
+	 echo "local change" > file
+	) &&
+	(cd super &&
+	 (cd submodule &&
+	  compare_head
+	 ) &&
+	 test_must_fail git submodule update submodule
+	)
+'
+test_expect_success 'submodule update should throw away changes with --force ' '
+	(cd super &&
+	 (cd submodule &&
+	  compare_head
+	 ) &&
+	 git submodule update --force submodule &&
+	 cd submodule &&
+	 ! compare_head
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'submodule update --rebase staying on master' '
 	(cd super/submodule &&
 	  git checkout master