submodule: warn about non-submodules

Earlier, when you called

git submodule some/bogus/path

Git would silently ignore the path, without warning the user about the
likely mistake.  Now it does.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 2f47e065fe8b7ca856f4527d6a507a28f1b2a06b..6cc2d334c08e1c3155c99087ca1e863400ffea23 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ resolve_relative_url ()
 #
 module_list()
 {
-       git ls-files --stage -- "$@" | grep '^160000 '
+       git ls-files --error-unmatch --stage -- "$@" | grep '^160000 '
 }
 
 #

diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index a74f24c0db69aa964aaf0e83f8ab978ffc0cc7a2..b8cb2df6670a18ebf54fecbb97a48d0c07a06e2b 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -240,4 +240,11 @@ test_expect_success 'ls-files gracefully handles trailing slash' '
 
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'submodule <invalid-path> warns' '
+
+       git submodule no-such-submodule 2> output.err &&
+       grep "^error: .*no-such-submodule" output.err
+
+'
+
 test_done