submodule: add 'deinit' command

With "git submodule init" the user is able to tell git he cares about one
or more submodules and wants to have it populated on the next call to "git
submodule update". But currently there is no easy way he could tell git he
does not care about a submodule anymore and wants to get rid of his local
work tree (except he knows a lot about submodule internals and removes the
"submodule.$name.url" setting from .git/config together with the work tree
himself).

Help those users by providing a 'deinit' command. This removes the
whole submodule.<name> section from .git/config (either for the given
submodule(s) or for all those which have been initialized if '.' is used)
together with their work tree. Fail if the current work tree contains
modifications (unless forced), but don't complain when either the work
tree is already removed or no settings are found in .git/config.

Add tests and link the man pages of "git submodule deinit" and "git rm"
to assist the user in deciding whether removing or unregistering the
submodule is the right thing to do for him. Also add the deinit subcommand
to the completion list.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jens Lehmann
2013-03-04 22:20:24 +01:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent f94c3251e1
commit cf41982806
5 changed files with 198 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -2176,7 +2176,7 @@ _git_submodule ()
{
__git_has_doubledash && return
local subcommands="add status init update summary foreach sync"
local subcommands="add status init deinit update summary foreach sync"
if [ -z "$(__git_find_on_cmdline "$subcommands")" ]; then
case "$cur" in
--*)