From b13fd5c1a2bd450cdf7b853e0c4861f361882a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:45:23 +0200
Subject: git submodule update: Introduce --recursive to update nested
 submodules

In very large and hierarchically structured projects, one may encounter
nested submodules. In these situations, it is valuable to not only update
the submodules in the current repo (which is what is currently done by
'git submodule update'), but also to operate on all submodules at all
levels (i.e. recursing into nested submodules as well).

This patch teaches the new --recursive option to the 'git submodule update'
command. The patch also includes documentation and selftests.

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'git-submodule.sh')

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index c501b7eafa..d8b98ff88f 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ dashless=$(basename "$0" | sed -e 's/-/ /')
 USAGE="[--quiet] add [-b branch] [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> <path>
    or: $dashless [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
-   or: $dashless [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--] [<path>...]
+   or: $dashless [--quiet] update [--init] [-N|--no-fetch] [--rebase] [--reference <repository>] [--merge] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] summary [--cached] [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] foreach [--recursive] <command>
    or: $dashless [--quiet] sync [--] [<path>...]"
@@ -352,6 +352,7 @@ cmd_init()
 cmd_update()
 {
 	# parse $args after "submodule ... update".
+	orig_args="$@"
 	while test $# -ne 0
 	do
 		case "$1" in
@@ -384,6 +385,10 @@ cmd_update()
 			shift
 			update="merge"
 			;;
+		--recursive)
+			shift
+			recursive=1
+			;;
 		--)
 			shift
 			break
@@ -470,6 +475,12 @@ cmd_update()
 			die "Unable to $action '$sha1' in submodule path '$path'"
 			say "Submodule path '$path': $msg '$sha1'"
 		fi
+
+		if test -n "$recursive"
+		then
+			(unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && cmd_update $orig_args) ||
+			die "Failed to recurse into submodule path '$path'"
+		fi
 	done
 }
 
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