Subject: [PATCH v2] submodule-config: fix reading submodule.fetchJobs

From: "Saagar Jha via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 May 2026 11:57:10 +0000

From: Saagar Jha <[email-masked]>

The old code accidentally passed &max_jobs rather than max_jobs into
config_from_gitmodules, which caused the setting to be written to the
wrong place and dropped.

Signed-off-by: Saagar Jha <[email-masked]>
---
    submodule-config: fix reading submodule.fetchJobs

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-2287%2Fsaagarjha%2Fmaint-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-2287/saagarjha/maint-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/2287

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  094c641227 ! 1:  868901f1a6 submodule-config: fix reading submodule.fetchJobs
     @@ Metadata
       ## Commit message ##
          submodule-config: fix reading submodule.fetchJobs
      
     +    The old code accidentally passed &max_jobs rather than max_jobs into
     +    config_from_gitmodules, which caused the setting to be written to the
     +    wrong place and dropped.
     +
          Signed-off-by: Saagar Jha <[email-masked]>
      
       ## submodule-config.c ##

 submodule-config.c          |  2 +-
 t/t7406-submodule-update.sh | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/submodule-config.c b/submodule-config.c
index 1f19fe2077..57b190678e 100644
--- a/submodule-config.c
+++ b/submodule-config.c
@@ -1037,5 +1037,5 @@ static int gitmodules_update_clone_config(const char *var, const char *value,
 
 void update_clone_config_from_gitmodules(int *max_jobs)
 {
-	config_from_gitmodules(gitmodules_update_clone_config, the_repository, &max_jobs);
+	config_from_gitmodules(gitmodules_update_clone_config, the_repository, max_jobs);
 }
diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
index 3adab12091..234a021fb3 100755
--- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
+++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
@@ -1055,6 +1055,16 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update can be run in parallel' '
 	)
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'submodule update honors fetch jobs config from .gitmodules' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf super3" &&
+	git clone cloned super3 &&
+	(cd super3 &&
+	 git config -f .gitmodules submodule.fetchJobs 67 &&
+	 GIT_TRACE="$(pwd)/trace.out" git submodule update --init &&
+	 grep "67 tasks" trace.out
+	)
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'git clone passes the parallel jobs config on to submodules' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf super4" &&
 	GIT_TRACE=$(pwd)/trace.out git clone --recurse-submodules --jobs 7 . super4 &&

base-commit: 67ad42147a7acc2af6074753ebd03d904476118f
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