Re: [PATCH] fetch: ensure submodule objects fetched

Stefan Beller [off-list ref] writes:

Currently when git-fetch is asked to recurse into submodules, it dispatches
a plain "git-fetch -C <submodule-dir>" (with some submodule related options
such as prefix and recusing strategy, but) without any information of the
remote or the tip that should be fetched.

But this default fetch is not sufficient, as a newly fetched commit in
the superproject could point to a commit in the submodule that is not
in the default refspec. This is common in workflows like Gerrit's.
When fetching a Gerrit change under review (from refs/changes/??), the
commits in that change likely point to submodule commits that have not
been merged to a branch yet.

Fetch a submodule object by id if the object that the superproject
points to, cannot be found. For now this object is fetched from the
'origin' remote as we defer getting the default remote to a later patch.

A list of new submodule commits are already generated in certain
conditions (by check_for_new_submodule_commits()); this new feature
invokes that function in more situations.

The submodule checks were done only when a ref in the superproject
changed, these checks were extended to also be performed when fetching
into FETCH_HEAD for completeness, and add a test for that too.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted>
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Thanks Jonathan for the review!
So it looks like only the last patch needs some improvements,
which is why I'd only resend the last patch here.
Also note the test with interious superproject commits.

Sorry, can't parse the last sentence.

Anyway, will replace the last step with this.  Thanks.