Ignore submodule commits when fetching over dumb protocols

Sven Verdoolaege · gitster · commit 582c7393a478 · 2007-06-26T18:02:13.000-07:00
Without this patch, the code would look for the submodule
commits in the superproject and (needlessly) fail when it
couldn't find them.

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege &lt;skimo@liacs.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/fetch.c b/fetch.c
@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ static int process_tree(struct tree *tree)
 	while (tree_entry(&desc, &entry)) {
 		struct object *obj = NULL;
 
+		/* submodule commits are not stored in the superproject */
+		if (S_ISDIRLNK(entry.mode))
+			continue;
 		if (S_ISDIR(entry.mode)) {
 			struct tree *tree = lookup_tree(entry.sha1);
 			if (tree)
