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    pull: optionally rebase submodules (remote submodule changes only) · a6d7eb2c
    Stefan Beller 提交于
    Teach pull to optionally update submodules when '--recurse-submodules'
    is provided.  This will teach pull to run 'submodule update --rebase'
    when the '--recurse-submodules' and '--rebase' flags are given under
    specific circumstances.
    
    On a rebase workflow:
    =====================
    
    1. Both sides change the submodule
     ------------------------------
    Let's assume the following history in a submodule:
    
      H---I---J---K---L local branch
           \
            M---N---O---P remote branch
    
    and the following in the superproject (recorded submodule in parens):
    
      A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L)  local branch
              \
               C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
    
    In an ideal world this would rebase the submodule and rewrite
    the submodule pointers that the superproject points at such that
    the superproject looks like
    
      A(H)---B(I)              F(K')---G(L')  rebased branch
               \                /
               C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
    
    and the submodule as:
    
            J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
           /
      H---I               J'---K'---L' rebased branch
           \             /
            M---N---O---P remote branch
    
    And if a conflict arises in the submodule the superproject rebase
    would stop at that commit at which the submodule conflict occurs.
    
    Currently a "pull --rebase" in the superproject produces
    a merge conflict as the submodule pointer changes are
    conflicting and cannot be resolved.
    
    2. Local submodule changes only
     -----------------------
    Assuming histories as above, except that the remote branch
    would not contain submodule changes, then a result as
    
      A(H)---B(I)               F(K)---G(L)  rebased branch
               \                /
               C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
    
    is desire-able. This is what currently happens in rebase.
    
    If the recursive flag is given, the ideal git would
    produce a superproject as:
    
      A(H)---B(I)              F(K')---G(L')  rebased branch (incl. sub rebase!)
               \                /
               C(I)---D(I)---E(I) remote branch
    
    and the submodule as:
    
            J---K---L (old dangeling tip)
           /
      H---I               J'---K'---L' locally rebased branch
           \             /
            M---N---O---P advanced branch
    
    This patch doesn't address this issue, however
    a test is added that this fails up front.
    
    3. Remote submodule changes only
     ----------------------
    Assuming histories as in (1) except that the local superproject branch
    would not have touched the submodule the rebase already works out in the
    superproject with no conflicts:
    
      A(H)---B(I)               F(P)---G(P)  rebased branch (no sub changes)
               \                 /
               C(N)---D(N)---E(P) remote branch
    
    The recurse flag as presented in this patch would additionally
    update the submodule as:
    
      H---I              J'---K'---L' rebased branch
           \            /
            M---N---O---P remote branch
    
    As neither J, K, L nor J', K', L' are referred to from the superproject,
    no rewriting of the superproject commits is required.
    
    Conclusion for 'pull --rebase --recursive'
     -----------------------------------------
    If there are no local superproject changes it is sufficient to call
    "submodule update --rebase" as this produces the desired results. In case
    of conflicts, the behavior is the same as in 'submodule update --recursive'
    which is assumed to be sane.
    
    This patch implements (3) only.
    
    On a merge workflow:
    ====================
    
    We'll start off with the same underlying DAG as in (1) in the rebase
    workflow. So in an ideal world a 'pull --merge --recursive' would
    produce this:
    
      H---I---J---K---L----X
           \              /
            M---N---O---P
    
    with X as the new merge-commit in the submodule and the superproject
    as:
    
      A(H)---B(I)---F(K)---G(L)---Y(X)
              \                  /
               C(N)---D(N)---E(P)
    
    However modifying the submodules on the fly is not supported in git-merge
    such that Y(X) is not easy to produce in a single patch. In fact git-merge
    doesn't know about submodules at all.
    
    However when at least one side does not contain commits touching the
    submodule at all, then we do not need to perform the merge for the
    submodule but a fast-forward can be done via checking out either L or P
    in the submodule.  This strategy is implemented in 68d03e4a (Implement
    automatic fast-forward merge for submodules, 2010-07-07) already, so
    to align with the rebase behavior we need to also update the worktree
    of the submodule.
    Signed-off-by: NBrandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NStefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: NJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
    a6d7eb2c
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