(just cc-ing Jens and Peter, who might be interested) W. Trevor King wrote:
> Today I had to move my first submodule, and I discovered that Git's > support for this is pretty limited. There have been a few patch > series attempting to address this [1,2], but none of them seems to > have pushed through into master (although I can't put my finger on a > reason for why). There are also some SO postings discussing this > [3,4]. It would be nice if `git mv` worked out of the box on > submodules. Failing that, there could be a `git submodule mv` command > that casts the appropriate spell. Failing that, there could be a > recipe in Documentation/git-submodule.txt. Here's the best I could > come up with for a `git-submodule-mv.sh`: > > #!/bin/sh > # usage: git-submodule-mv.sh OLD NEW > OLD=$(realpath --relative-to . "$1") > NEW=$(realpath --relative-to . "$2") > SHA=$(git ls-files -s "$OLD" | sed 's|^[0-9]* \([0-9a-f]*\) .*|\1|') > NAME=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get-regexp 'submodule\..*\.path' "$OLD" | > sed -e 's|^submodule.||' -e "s|.path $OLD\$||") > GITDIR=$(realpath --relative-to "$NEW" .git/modules/"$NAME") > git config -f .gitmodules submodule."$NAME".path "$NEW" > git config -f .git/modules/"$NAME"/config core.worktree "../../../$NEW" > git rm --cached "$OLD" > mv "$OLD" "$NEW" > echo "gitdir: $GITDIR" > "$NEW/.git" > git update-index --add --cacheinfo 160000 "$SHA" "$NEW" > > This only works from the repository root directory, and I'm sure makes > a number of poor assumptions (e.g. old-style submodules that don't use > `gitdir` links are not supported). It does work for some simple test > cases. The tricky parts (e.g. path -> name conversion) are already > worked out more robustly git-submodule.sh, so adding a new cmd_mv > shouldn't be very difficult. > > Could something like this live somewhere in Git, or are we waiting for > a more integrated solution? > > Cheers, > Trevor > > [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/88720 > [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/143250 > [4]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4323558/moving-submodules-with-git > [3]: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4604486/how-do-i-move-an-existing-git-submodule-within-a-git-repository -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
