Subject: [GSoC PATCH] promisor-remote: fix promisor.quiet to use the correct repository

From: Trieu Huynh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 03:30:41 +0900

fetch_objects() reads the promisor.quiet configuration from
the_repository instead of the repo parameter it receives.

This means that when git lazy-fetches objects for a non-main
repository, eg. a submodule that is itself a partial clone opened
via repo_submodule_init(). The submodule's own promisor.quiet
setting is ignored and the superproject's setting is used instead.

Fix by replacing the_repository with repo in the repo_config_get_bool()
call. The practical trigger is git grep --recurse-submodules on a
superproject where the submodule is a partial clone.

Add a test where promisor.quiet is set only in a partial-clone
submodule; a lazy fetch triggered by "git grep --recurse-submodules"
must honor that setting.

Signed-off-by: Trieu Huynh <[email-masked]>
---
nit: This cleanup was explicitly noted as needed in 5d215a7b3e
("promisor-remote: make promisor_remote_reinit() not depend on
the_repository", 2024-10-17), where Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
"Those sites should eventually be cleaned up in a later patch series."

 promisor-remote.c        |  2 +-
 t/t0410-partial-clone.sh | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/promisor-remote.c b/promisor-remote.c
index 96fa215b06..225260b05f 100644
--- a/promisor-remote.c
+++ b/promisor-remote.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static int fetch_objects(struct repository *repo,
 		     "fetch", remote_name, "--no-tags",
 		     "--no-write-fetch-head", "--recurse-submodules=no",
 		     "--filter=blob:none", "--stdin", NULL);
-	if (!repo_config_get_bool(the_repository, "promisor.quiet", &quiet) && quiet)
+	if (!repo_config_get_bool(repo, "promisor.quiet", &quiet) && quiet)
 		strvec_push(&child.args, "--quiet");
 	if (start_command(&child))
 		die(_("promisor-remote: unable to fork off fetch subprocess"));
diff --git a/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh b/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
index 52e19728a3..dff442da20 100755
--- a/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
+++ b/t/t0410-partial-clone.sh
@@ -717,7 +717,29 @@ test_expect_success 'setup for promisor.quiet tests' '
 	git -C server rm foo.t &&
 	git -C server commit -m remove &&
 	git -C server config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant 1 &&
-	git -C server config uploadpack.allowfilter 1
+	git -C server config uploadpack.allowfilter 1 &&
+
+	# Setup for submodule repo test: superproject whose submodule is a
+	# partial clone, so that promisor.quiet is read via a non-main repo.
+	rm -rf sub-pc-src sub-pc-srv.bare super-src super-work &&
+	git init sub-pc-src &&
+	test_commit -C sub-pc-src initial file.txt "hello" &&
+
+	git clone --bare sub-pc-src sub-pc-srv.bare &&
+	git -C sub-pc-srv.bare config uploadpack.allowfilter 1 &&
+	git -C sub-pc-srv.bare config uploadpack.allowanysha1inwant 1 &&
+
+	git init super-src &&
+	git -C super-src -c protocol.file.allow=always \
+		submodule add "file://$(pwd)/sub-pc-srv.bare" sub &&
+	git -C super-src commit -m "add submodule" &&
+
+	git -c protocol.file.allow=always clone super-src super-work &&
+	git -C super-work -c protocol.file.allow=always \
+		submodule update --init --filter=blob:none sub &&
+
+	# Allow file:// in the submodule so that lazy-fetch subprocesses work.
+	git -C super-work/sub config protocol.file.allow always
 '
 
 test_expect_success TTY 'promisor.quiet=false shows progress messages' '
@@ -752,6 +774,27 @@ test_expect_success TTY 'promisor.quiet=unconfigured shows progress messages' '
 	grep "Receiving objects" err
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'promisor.quiet from submodule repo is honored' '
+	rm -f pc-quiet-trace &&
+
+	# Set promisor.quiet only in the submodule, not the superproject.
+	git -C super-work/sub config promisor.quiet true &&
+
+	# Push a new commit+blob to the server; the blob stays missing in the
+	# partial-clone submodule until a lazy fetch is triggered.
+	test_commit -C sub-pc-src updated new-file.txt "world" &&
+	git -C sub-pc-src push "$(pwd)/sub-pc-srv.bare" HEAD:master &&
+	git -C super-work/sub -c protocol.file.allow=always fetch origin &&
+	git -C super-work/sub reset --mixed origin/master &&
+
+	# grep descends into the submodule and triggers a lazy fetch for the
+	# missing blob; verify the fetch subprocess carries --quiet.
+	GIT_TRACE2_EVENT="$(pwd)/pc-quiet-trace" \
+		git -C super-work grep --cached --recurse-submodules "world" \
+		2>/dev/null &&
+	grep negotiationAlgorithm pc-quiet-trace | grep -e --quiet
+'
+
 . "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-httpd.sh
 start_httpd
 
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