submodule: detect conflicts with existing gitdir configs

Credit goes to Emily and Josh for testing and noticing a corner-case
which caused conflicts with existing gitdir configs to silently pass
validation, then fail later in add_submodule() with a cryptic error:

fatal: A git directory for 'nested%2fsub' is found locally with remote(s):
  origin	/.../trash directory.t7425-submodule-gitdir-path-extension/sub

This change ensures the validation step checks existing gitdirs for
conflicts. We only have to do this for submodules having gitdirs,
because those without submodule.%s.gitdir need to be migrated and
will throw an error earlier in the submodule codepath.

Quoting Josh:
 My testing setup has been as follows:
 * Using our locally-built Git with our downstream patch of [1] included:
   * create a repo "sub"
   * create a repo "super"
   * In "super":
     * mkdir nested
     * git submodule add ../sub nested/sub
     * Verify that the submodule's gitdir is .git/modules/nested%2fsub
 * Using a build of git from upstream `next` plus this series:
   * git config set --global extensions.submodulepathconfig true
   * git clone --recurse-submodules super super2
   * create a repo "nested%2fsub"
   * In "super2":
     * git submodule add ../nested%2fsub

At this point I'd expect the collision detection / encoding to take
effect, but instead I get the error listed above.
End quote

Suggested-by: Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Adrian Ratiu 2026-01-08 01:01:45 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a612f856ff
commit 36d43bef82
2 changed files with 89 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -2296,6 +2296,62 @@ cleanup:
return ret;
}
struct submodule_from_gitdir_cb {
const char *gitdir;
const char *submodule_name;
bool conflict_found;
};
static int find_conflict_by_gitdir_cb(const char *var, const char *value,
const struct config_context *ctx UNUSED, void *data)
{
struct submodule_from_gitdir_cb *cb = data;
const char *submodule_name_start;
size_t submodule_name_len;
const char *suffix = ".gitdir";
size_t suffix_len = strlen(suffix);
if (!skip_prefix(var, "submodule.", &submodule_name_start))
return 0;
/* Check if submodule_name_start ends with ".gitdir" */
submodule_name_len = strlen(submodule_name_start);
if (submodule_name_len < suffix_len ||
strcmp(submodule_name_start + submodule_name_len - suffix_len, suffix) != 0)
return 0; /* Does not end with ".gitdir" */
submodule_name_len -= suffix_len;
/*
* A conflict happens if:
* 1. The submodule names are different and
* 2. The gitdir paths resolve to the same absolute path
*/
if (value && strncmp(cb->submodule_name, submodule_name_start, submodule_name_len)) {
char *abs_path_cb = absolute_pathdup(cb->gitdir);
char *abs_path_value = absolute_pathdup(value);
cb->conflict_found = !strcmp(abs_path_cb, abs_path_value);
free(abs_path_cb);
free(abs_path_value);
}
return cb->conflict_found;
}
static bool submodule_conflicts_with_existing(const char *gitdir, const char *submodule_name)
{
struct submodule_from_gitdir_cb cb = { 0 };
cb.submodule_name = submodule_name;
cb.gitdir = gitdir;
/* Find conflicts with existing repo gitdir configs */
repo_config(the_repository, find_conflict_by_gitdir_cb, &cb);
return cb.conflict_found;
}
/*
* Encoded gitdir validation, only used when extensions.submodulePathConfig is enabled.
* This does not print errors like the non-encoded version, because encoding is supposed
@ -2321,6 +2377,11 @@ static int validate_submodule_encoded_git_dir(char *git_dir, const char *submodu
if (!last_submodule_name || strchr(last_submodule_name, '/'))
return -1;
/* Prevent conflicts with existing submodule gitdirs */
if (is_git_directory(git_dir) &&
submodule_conflicts_with_existing(git_dir, submodule_name))
return -1;
/* Prevent conflicts on case-folding filesystems */
repo_config_get_bool(the_repository, "core.ignorecase", &config_ignorecase);
if (ignore_case || config_ignorecase) {

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@ -501,4 +501,32 @@ test_expect_success CASE_INSENSITIVE_FS 'verify hashing conflict resolution as a
verify_submodule_gitdir_path cloned-hash "Foo" "modules/${hash}"
'
test_expect_success 'submodule gitdir conflicts with previously encoded name (local config)' '
git init -b main super_with_encoded &&
(
cd super_with_encoded &&
git config core.repositoryformatversion 1 &&
git config extensions.submodulePathConfig true &&
# Add a submodule with a nested path
git submodule add --name "nested/sub" ../sub nested/sub &&
test_commit add-encoded-gitdir &&
verify_submodule_gitdir_path . "nested/sub" "modules/nested%2fsub" &&
test_path_is_dir ".git/modules/nested%2fsub"
) &&
# create a submodule that will conflict with the encoded gitdir name:
# the existing gitdir is ".git/modules/nested%2fsub", which is used
# by "nested/sub", so the new submod will get another (non-conflicting)
# name: "nested%252fsub".
(
cd super_with_encoded &&
git submodule add ../sub "nested%2fsub" &&
verify_submodule_gitdir_path . "nested%2fsub" "modules/nested%252fsub" &&
test_path_is_dir ".git/modules/nested%252fsub"
)
'
test_done