git-submodule - Allow adding a submodule in-place

When working in the top-level project, it is useful to create a new
submodule as a git repo in a subdirectory, then add that submodule to
the top-level in place.

This patch allows "git submodule add <intended url> subdir" to add the
existing subdir to the current project.  The presumption is the user will
later push / clone the subdir to the <intended url> so that future
submodule init / updates will work.

Absent this patch, "git submodule add" insists upon cloning the subdir
from a repository at the given url, which is fine for adding an existing
project in, but less useful when adding a new submodule from scratch to an
existing project.  The former functionality remains, and the clone is
attempted if the subdir does not already exist as a valid git repo.

Signed-off-by: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index e818e6e7895a94af0b05f04d2c8ecdae64583efd..b4d01605a521279e298d9764ea90f25a8ee367d2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@ COMMANDS
 --------
 add::
        Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path
-       to the changeset to be committed next.  In particular, the
-       repository is cloned at the specified path, added to the
+       to the changeset to be committed next.  If path is a valid
+       repository within the project, it is added as is. Otherwise,
+       repository is cloned at the specified path. path is added to the
        changeset and registered in .gitmodules.   If no path is
        specified, the path is deduced from the repository specification.
        If the repository url begins with ./ or ../, it is stored as

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 67d3224c8c4c7106287aeb095ea545fe7a26b726..7171cb60ab4e6a49b84500bde43c04ea40501d6c 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -153,20 +153,6 @@ cmd_add()
                usage
        fi
 
-       case "$repo" in
-       ./*|../*)
-               # dereference source url relative to parent's url
-               realrepo="$(resolve_relative_url $repo)" ;;
-       *)
-               # Turn the source into an absolute path if
-               # it is local
-               if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
-                       repo="$base"
-               fi
-               realrepo=$repo
-               ;;
-       esac
-
        # Guess path from repo if not specified or strip trailing slashes
        if test -z "$path"; then
                path=$(echo "$repo" | sed -e 's|/*$||' -e 's|:*/*\.git$||' -e 's|.*[/:]||g')
@@ -174,15 +160,39 @@ cmd_add()
                path=$(echo "$path" | sed -e 's|/*$||')
        fi
 
-       test -e "$path" &&
-       die "'$path' already exists"
-
        git ls-files --error-unmatch "$path" > /dev/null 2>&1 &&
        die "'$path' already exists in the index"
 
-       module_clone "$path" "$realrepo" || exit
-       (unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) ||
-       die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
+       # perhaps the path exists and is already a git repo, else clone it
+       if test -e "$path"
+       then
+               if test -d "$path/.git" &&
+               test "$(unset GIT_DIR; cd $path; git rev-parse --git-dir)" = ".git"
+               then
+                       echo "Adding existing repo at '$path' to the index"
+               else
+                       die "'$path' already exists and is not a valid git repo"
+               fi
+       else
+               case "$repo" in
+               ./*|../*)
+                       # dereference source url relative to parent's url
+                       realrepo="$(resolve_relative_url $repo)" ;;
+               *)
+                       # Turn the source into an absolute path if
+                       # it is local
+                       if base=$(get_repo_base "$repo"); then
+                               repo="$base"
+                       fi
+                       realrepo=$repo
+                       ;;
+               esac
+
+               module_clone "$path" "$realrepo" || exit
+               (unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) ||
+               die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
+       fi
+
        git add "$path" ||
        die "Failed to add submodule '$path'"