submodule: add absorb-git-dir function

When a submodule has its git dir inside the working dir, the submodule
support for checkout that we plan to add in a later patch will fail.

Add functionality to migrate the git directory to be absorbed
into the superprojects git directory.

The newly added code in this patch is structured such that other areas of
Git can also make use of it. The code in the submodule--helper is a mere
wrapper and option parser for the function
`absorb_git_dir_into_superproject`, that takes care of embedding the
submodules git directory into the superprojects git dir. That function
makes use of the more abstract function for this use case
`relocate_gitdir`, which can be used by e.g. the worktree code eventually
to move around a git directory.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index e0efd3c2c3..d872cc1570 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -2773,3 +2773,15 @@ void connect_work_tree_and_git_dir(const char *work_tree_, const char *git_dir_)
 	free(work_tree);
 	free(git_dir);
 }
+
+/*
+ * Migrate the git directory of the given path from old_git_dir to new_git_dir.
+ */
+void relocate_gitdir(const char *path, const char *old_git_dir, const char *new_git_dir)
+{
+	if (rename(old_git_dir, new_git_dir) < 0)
+		die_errno(_("could not migrate git directory from '%s' to '%s'"),
+			old_git_dir, new_git_dir);
+
+	connect_work_tree_and_git_dir(path, new_git_dir);
+}