From 31991b0260216d16f2e447e68bcabd9d9cce26ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=86var=20Arnfj=C3=B6r=C3=B0=20Bjarmason?= Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:33:03 +0000 Subject: git submodule: add submodules with git add -f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Change `git submodule add' to add the new submodule with `git add --force'. I keep my /etc in .git with a .gitignore that contains just "*". I.e. `git status' will ignore everything that isn't in the tree already. When I do: git submodule add hlagh git-submodule will get as far as checking out the remote repository into hlagh, but it'll die right afterwards when it fails to add the new path: The following paths are ignored by one of your .gitignore files: hlagh Use -f if you really want to add them. fatal: no files added Failed to add submodule 'hlagh' Currently there's no way to add a submodule in this situation other than to remove the ignored path from the .gitignore while I'm at it. That's silly, when you run `git submodule add' you're explicitly saying that you want to add something *new* to the repository. Instead it should just add the path with `git add --force'. Initially I implemented this by adding new -f and --force options to `git submodule add'. But if the --force option isn't supplied it'll get as far as cloning `hlagh', but won't add it. So the first thing the user has to do is to remove `hlagh' and then try again with the --force option. That sucks, it should just add the path to begin with. I can't think of any usecase where you've gone through the trouble of typing out `git submodule add ..', but wish to be overriden by a `gitignore'. The submodule semantics should be more like `git init', not `git add'. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-submodule.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt index cdabfd29a..76a832a3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ is the superproject and submodule repositories will be kept together in the same relative location, and only the superproject's URL needs to be provided: git-submodule will correctly locate the submodule using the relative URL in .gitmodules. ++ +The submodule will be added with "git add --force ". I.e. git +doesn't care if the new path is in a `gitignore`. Your invocation of +"git submodule add" is considered enough to override it. status:: Show the status of the submodules. This will print the SHA-1 of the -- cgit v1.2.1