submodules: introduce check to see whether to touch a submodule

In later patches we introduce the --recurse-submodule flag for commands
that modify the working directory, e.g. git-checkout.

It is potentially expensive to check if a submodule needs an update,
because a common theme to interact with submodules is to spawn a child
process for each interaction.

So let's introduce a function that checks if a submodule needs
to be checked for an update before attempting the update.

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

submodule.c

@@ -548,6 +548,22 @@ void set_config_update_recurse_submodules(int value)
 	config_update_recurse_submodules = value;
 }
 
+int should_update_submodules(void)
+{
+	return config_update_recurse_submodules == RECURSE_SUBMODULES_ON;
+}
+
+const struct submodule *submodule_from_ce(const struct cache_entry *ce)
+{
+	if (!S_ISGITLINK(ce->ce_mode))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (!should_update_submodules())
+		return NULL;
+
+	return submodule_from_path(null_sha1, ce->name);
+}
+
 static int has_remote(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
 		      int flags, void *cb_data)
 {