Subject: [PATCH] git submodule: Remove now obsolete tests before cloning a repo

From: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 00:27:35 +0100

Since 55892d23 "git clone" itself checks that the destination path is not
a file but an empty directory if it exists, so there is no need anymore
for module_clone() to check that too.

Two tests have been added to test the behavior of "git submodule add" when
path is a file or a directory (A subshell had to be added to the former
last test to stay in the right directory).

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <[email-masked]>
---

Am 03.12.2010 08:10, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> Jens Lehmann wrote:
>> Am 01.12.2010 19:50, schrieb Jonathan Nieder:
> 
>>>                                  Jens, any idea why git submodule
>>> is not using "clone --branch" directly?
>>
>> Nope, these lines date back to the time before I got involved in the
>> submodule business ... Seems like this "git checkout" was added in
>> March 2008 by Mark Levedahl (CCed), maybe he can shed some light on
>> that.
> 
> Ah, so the problem is that "clone --branch" did not exist.  Sorry for
> the noise.
> 
> Another question can be also be easily answered by history examination:
> the series of checks in module_clone are because 70c7ac22d:git-clone.sh
> did not have checks of its own for the target directory.
> 
> So there is some simplification within grasp.

Maybe something like this?

 git-submodule.sh           |   14 --------------
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 33bc41f..8085876 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -93,20 +93,6 @@ module_clone()
 	url=$2
 	reference="$3"

-	# If there already is a directory at the submodule path,
-	# expect it to be empty (since that is the default checkout
-	# action) and try to remove it.
-	# Note: if $path is a symlink to a directory the test will
-	# succeed but the rmdir will fail. We might want to fix this.
-	if test -d "$path"
-	then
-		rmdir "$path" 2>/dev/null ||
-		die "Directory '$path' exists, but is neither empty nor a git repository"
-	fi
-
-	test -e "$path" &&
-	die "A file already exist at path '$path'"
-
 	if test -n "$reference"
 	then
 		git-clone "$reference" -n "$url" "$path"
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 782b0a3..2c49db9 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -421,11 +421,29 @@ test_expect_success 'add submodules without specifying an explicit path' '
 		git commit -m "repo commit 1"
 	) &&
 	git clone --bare repo/ bare.git &&
-	cd addtest &&
-	git submodule add "$submodurl/repo" &&
-	git config -f .gitmodules submodule.repo.path repo &&
-	git submodule add "$submodurl/bare.git" &&
-	git config -f .gitmodules submodule.bare.path bare
+	(
+		cd addtest &&
+		git submodule add "$submodurl/repo" &&
+		git config -f .gitmodules submodule.repo.path repo &&
+		git submodule add "$submodurl/bare.git" &&
+		git config -f .gitmodules submodule.bare.path bare
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'add should fail when path is used by a file' '
+	(
+		cd addtest &&
+		touch file &&
+		test_must_fail	git submodule add "$submodurl/repo" file
+	)
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'add should fail when path is used by an existing directory' '
+	(
+		cd addtest &&
+		mkdir empty-dir &&
+		test_must_fail git submodule add "$submodurl/repo" empty-dir
+	)
 '

 test_done
-- 
1.7.3.2.657.g92628.dirty