Ignore submodule commits when fetching over dumb protocols

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 <redacted>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

diff --git a/fetch.c b/fetch.c
index 8e29d313f817981a29ebb65f2f579c9f1bd8e9b6..6f1f420be26ac6dafec366b3dc0671fb7f4940dc 100644 (file)
--- 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)