submodule: refuse to add repository with no commits

When the path given to 'git submodule add' is an existing repository that is not in the index, the repository is passed to 'git add'. If this repository doesn't have a commit checked out, we don't get a useful result: there is no subproject OID to track, and any untracked files in the sub-repository are added as blobs in the top-level repository. To avoid getting into this state, abort if the path is a repository that doesn't have a commit checked out. Note that this check must come before the 'git add --dry-run' check because the next commit will make 'git add' fail when given a repository that doesn't have a commit checked out. Signed-off-by: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Kyle Meyer committed Apr 9, 2019 at 19:07 UTC e13811189bbd6b8672e3359f25c1e10f0c9b3c20
2 files changed +17 -1
git-submodule.sh
+7
@@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ cmd_add()
230 die "$(eval_gettext "'\$sm_path' already exists in the index and is not a submodule")"
231 fi
232
233 + if test -d "$sm_path" &&
234 + test -z $(git -C "$sm_path" rev-parse --show-cdup 2>/dev/null)
235 + then
236 + git -C "$sm_path" rev-parse --verify -q HEAD >/dev/null ||
237 + die "$(eval_gettext "'\$sm_path' does not have a commit checked out")"
238 + fi
239 +
240 if test -z "$force" &&
241 ! git add --dry-run --ignore-missing --no-warn-embedded-repo "$sm_path" > /dev/null 2>&1
242 then
t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+10 -1
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update aborts on missing gitmodules url' '
46 test_must_fail git submodule init
47 '
48
49 +test_expect_success 'add aborts on repository with no commits' '
50 + cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
51 + '"'repo-no-commits'"' does not have a commit checked out
52 + EOF
53 + git init repo-no-commits &&
54 + test_must_fail git submodule add ../a ./repo-no-commits 2>actual &&
55 + test_i18ncmp expect actual
56 +'
57 +
58 test_expect_success 'setup - repository in init subdirectory' '
59 mkdir init &&
60 (
@@ -809,7 +818,7 @@ test_expect_success '../bar/a/b/c works with relative local path - ../foo/bar.gi
818 cp pristine-.git-config .git/config &&
819 cp pristine-.gitmodules .gitmodules &&
820 mkdir -p a/b/c &&
812 - (cd a/b/c && git init) &&
821 + (cd a/b/c && git init && test_commit msg) &&
822 git config remote.origin.url ../foo/bar.git &&
823 git submodule add ../bar/a/b/c ./a/b/c &&
824 git submodule init &&