dirk-thomas/vcstool

submodule which is not main branch is not init or updated

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KohMat commented

A submodule which is not main(e.g. not master or develop) is not edited or updated by:

vcs import < *.repo --recursive

Is there any way to update the submodule.

dirk-thomas commented

Please provide exact steps to reproduce your use case.

KohMat commented

Sorry to late responce. I tested vcs 0.1.40 with this repo.
The repository has 2 branchs:

  • master : has this vcstool submodule
  • develop : does not have the vcstool submodule but has other submodule.

When I try to import the develop of the repository with the following file and command:

.repo:

repositories:
  test:
    type: git
    url: git@github.com:KohMat/test.git
    version: develop

The terminal log:

$ vcs import < test.repo --recursive
=== ./test (git) ===
Cloning into '.'...
Submodule 'vcstool' (https://github.com/dirk-thomas/vcstool.git) registered for path 'vcstool'
Cloning into 'vcstool'...
Submodule path 'vcstool': checked out '5fe93e3978f48d754d2de62506da6b56c20a87d2'
warning: unable to rmdir vcstool: Directory not empty
Switched to a new branch 'develop'
Branch develop set up to track remote branch develop from origin.

There are not the files from the other submodules:

$ tree -L 3
.
├── test
│   ├── vcstool
│   │   ├── CONTRIBUTING.md
│   │   ├── LICENSE
│   │   ├── Makefile
│   │   ├── MANIFEST.in
│   │   ├── README.rst
│   │   ├── scripts
│   │   ├── setup.py
│   │   ├── setup.sh
│   │   ├── stdeb.cfg
│   │   ├── test
│   │   ├── vcstool
│   │   └── vcstool-completion
│   └── xtensor
└── test.repo

7 directories, 9 files
dirk-thomas commented

Please try the patch in #94 which should resolve the bug using import --recursive in combination with a non-default branch. It would be great if you could give it a try and comment here if it resolved the problem for you.