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-rw-r--r--builtin/submodule--helper.c18
-rwxr-xr-xt/t7406-submodule-update.sh35
2 files changed, 52 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 9be2c75e0e..f1acc4dc96 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -912,6 +912,24 @@ static const char *remote_submodule_branch(const char *path)
if (!sub->branch)
return "master";
+ if (!strcmp(sub->branch, ".")) {
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ const char *refname = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, sha1, NULL);
+
+ if (!refname)
+ die(_("No such ref: %s"), "HEAD");
+
+ /* detached HEAD */
+ if (!strcmp(refname, "HEAD"))
+ die(_("Submodule (%s) branch configured to inherit "
+ "branch from superproject, but the superproject "
+ "is not on any branch"), sub->name);
+
+ if (!skip_prefix(refname, "refs/heads/", &refname))
+ die(_("Expecting a full ref name, got %s"), refname);
+ return refname;
+ }
+
return sub->branch;
}
diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
index 1bb1f43824..d7983cf09f 100755
--- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
+++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
@@ -209,9 +209,42 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update --remote should fetch upstream changes' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'submodule update --remote should fetch upstream changes with .' '
+ (
+ cd super &&
+ git config -f .gitmodules submodule."submodule".branch "." &&
+ git add .gitmodules &&
+ git commit -m "submodules: update from the respective superproject branch"
+ ) &&
+ (
+ cd submodule &&
+ echo line4a >> file &&
+ git add file &&
+ test_tick &&
+ git commit -m "upstream line4a" &&
+ git checkout -b test-branch &&
+ test_commit on-test-branch
+ ) &&
+ (
+ cd super &&
+ git submodule update --remote --force submodule &&
+ git -C submodule log -1 --oneline >actual
+ git -C ../submodule log -1 --oneline master >expect
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ git checkout -b test-branch &&
+ git submodule update --remote --force submodule &&
+ git -C submodule log -1 --oneline >actual
+ git -C ../submodule log -1 --oneline test-branch >expect
+ test_cmp expect actual &&
+ git checkout master &&
+ git branch -d test-branch &&
+ git reset --hard HEAD^
+ )
+'
+
test_expect_success 'local config should override .gitmodules branch' '
(cd submodule &&
- git checkout -b test-branch &&
+ git checkout test-branch &&
echo line5 >> file &&
git add file &&
test_tick &&