rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree

In some situations it is useful to know if the given repository
is a submodule of another repository.

Add the flag --show-superproject-working-tree to git-rev-parse
to make it easy to find out if there is a superproject. When no
superproject exists, the output will be empty.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt

@@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ print a message to stderr and exit with nonzero status.
 --show-toplevel::
 	Show the absolute path of the top-level directory.
 
+--show-superproject-working-tree
+	Show the absolute path of the root of the superproject's
+	working tree (if exists) that uses the current repository as
+	its submodule.  Outputs nothing if the current repository is
+	not used as a submodule by any project.
+
 --shared-index-path::
 	Show the path to the shared index file in split index mode, or
 	empty if not in split-index mode.

builtin/rev-parse.c

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include "diff.h"
 #include "revision.h"
 #include "split-index.h"
+#include "submodule.h"
 
 #define DO_REVS		1
 #define DO_NOREV	2
@@ -779,6 +780,12 @@ int cmd_rev_parse(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 					puts(work_tree);
 				continue;
 			}
+			if (!strcmp(arg, "--show-superproject-working-tree")) {
+				const char *superproject = get_superproject_working_tree();
+				if (superproject)
+					puts(superproject);
+				continue;
+			}
 			if (!strcmp(arg, "--show-prefix")) {
 				if (prefix)
 					puts(prefix);

submodule.c

@@ -1514,3 +1514,85 @@ void absorb_git_dir_into_superproject(const char *prefix,
 		strbuf_release(&sb);
 	}
 }
+
+const char *get_superproject_working_tree(void)
+{
+	struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
+	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
+	const char *one_up = real_path_if_valid("../");
+	const char *cwd = xgetcwd();
+	const char *ret = NULL;
+	const char *subpath;
+	int code;
+	ssize_t len;
+
+	if (!is_inside_work_tree())
+		/*
+		 * FIXME:
+		 * We might have a superproject, but it is harder
+		 * to determine.
+		 */
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (!one_up)
+		return NULL;
+
+	subpath = relative_path(cwd, one_up, &sb);
+
+	prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array);
+	argv_array_pop(&cp.env_array);
+
+	argv_array_pushl(&cp.args, "--literal-pathspecs", "-C", "..",
+			"ls-files", "-z", "--stage", "--full-name", "--",
+			subpath, NULL);
+	strbuf_reset(&sb);
+
+	cp.no_stdin = 1;
+	cp.no_stderr = 1;
+	cp.out = -1;
+	cp.git_cmd = 1;
+
+	if (start_command(&cp))
+		die(_("could not start ls-files in .."));
+
+	len = strbuf_read(&sb, cp.out, PATH_MAX);
+	close(cp.out);
+
+	if (starts_with(sb.buf, "160000")) {
+		int super_sub_len;
+		int cwd_len = strlen(cwd);
+		char *super_sub, *super_wt;
+
+		/*
+		 * There is a superproject having this repo as a submodule.
+		 * The format is <mode> SP <hash> SP <stage> TAB <full name> \0,
+		 * We're only interested in the name after the tab.
+		 */
+		super_sub = strchr(sb.buf, '\t') + 1;
+		super_sub_len = sb.buf + sb.len - super_sub - 1;
+
+		if (super_sub_len > cwd_len ||
+		    strcmp(&cwd[cwd_len - super_sub_len], super_sub))
+			die (_("BUG: returned path string doesn't match cwd?"));
+
+		super_wt = xstrdup(cwd);
+		super_wt[cwd_len - super_sub_len] = '\0';
+
+		ret = real_path(super_wt);
+		free(super_wt);
+	}
+	strbuf_release(&sb);
+
+	code = finish_command(&cp);
+
+	if (code == 128)
+		/* '../' is not a git repository */
+		return NULL;
+	if (code == 0 && len == 0)
+		/* There is an unrelated git repository at '../' */
+		return NULL;
+	if (code)
+		die(_("ls-tree returned unexpected return code %d"), code);
+
+	return ret;
+}

submodule.h

@@ -93,4 +93,12 @@ extern void prepare_submodule_repo_env(struct argv_array *out);
 extern void absorb_git_dir_into_superproject(const char *prefix,
 					     const char *path,
 					     unsigned flags);
+
+/*
+ * Return the absolute path of the working tree of the superproject, which this
+ * project is a submodule of. If this repository is not a submodule of
+ * another repository, return NULL.
+ */
+extern const char *get_superproject_working_tree(void);
+
 #endif

t/t1500-rev-parse.sh

@@ -116,4 +116,18 @@ test_expect_success 'git-path inside sub-dir' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'showing the superproject correctly' '
+	git rev-parse --show-superproject-working-tree >out &&
+	test_must_be_empty out &&
+
+	test_create_repo super &&
+	test_commit -C super test_commit &&
+	test_create_repo sub &&
+	test_commit -C sub test_commit &&
+	git -C super submodule add ../sub dir/sub &&
+	echo $(pwd)/super >expect  &&
+	git -C super/dir/sub rev-parse --show-superproject-working-tree >out &&
+	test_cmp expect out
+'
+
 test_done