clean: preserve nested git worktree in subdirectories

remove_dir_recursively() has a check to avoid removing the directory it
was asked to remove without recursing into it and report success when the
directory is the top level of a working tree of a nested git repository,
to protect such a repository from "clean -f" (without double -f). If a
working tree of a nested git repository is in a subdirectory of a toplevel
project, however, this protection did not apply by mistake; we forgot to
pass the REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_NESTED_GIT down to the recursive removal
codepath.

This requires us to also teach the higher level not to remove the
directory it is asked to remove, when the recursed invocation did not
remove the directory it was asked to remove due to a nested git
repository, as it is not an error to leave the parent directories of such
a nested repository.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

dir.c

@@ -1172,23 +1172,27 @@ int is_empty_dir(const char *path)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int flag)
+static int remove_dir_recurse(struct strbuf *path, int flag, int *kept_up)
 {
 	DIR *dir;
 	struct dirent *e;
-	int ret = 0, original_len = path->len, len;
+	int ret = 0, original_len = path->len, len, kept_down = 0;
 	int only_empty = (flag & REMOVE_DIR_EMPTY_ONLY);
 	int keep_toplevel = (flag & REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL);
 	unsigned char submodule_head[20];
 
 	if ((flag & REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_NESTED_GIT) &&
-	    !resolve_gitlink_ref(path->buf, "HEAD", submodule_head))
+	    !resolve_gitlink_ref(path->buf, "HEAD", submodule_head)) {
 		/* Do not descend and nuke a nested git work tree. */
+		if (kept_up)
+			*kept_up = 1;
 		return 0;
+	}
 
-	flag &= ~(REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL|REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_NESTED_GIT);
+	flag &= ~REMOVE_DIR_KEEP_TOPLEVEL;
 	dir = opendir(path->buf);
 	if (!dir) {
+		/* an empty dir could be removed even if it is unreadble */
 		if (!keep_toplevel)
 			return rmdir(path->buf);
 		else
@@ -1208,7 +1212,7 @@ int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int flag)
 		if (lstat(path->buf, &st))
 			; /* fall thru */
 		else if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
-			if (!remove_dir_recursively(path, flag))
+			if (!remove_dir_recurse(path, flag, &kept_down))
 				continue; /* happy */
 		} else if (!only_empty && !unlink(path->buf))
 			continue; /* happy, too */
@@ -1220,11 +1224,22 @@ int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int flag)
 	closedir(dir);
 
 	strbuf_setlen(path, original_len);
-	if (!ret && !keep_toplevel)
+	if (!ret && !keep_toplevel && !kept_down)
 		ret = rmdir(path->buf);
+	else if (kept_up)
+		/*
+		 * report the uplevel that it is not an error that we
+		 * did not rmdir() our directory.
+		 */
+		*kept_up = !ret;
 	return ret;
 }
 
+int remove_dir_recursively(struct strbuf *path, int flag)
+{
+	return remove_dir_recurse(path, flag, NULL);
+}
+
 void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir)
 {
 	const char *path;

t/t7300-clean.sh

@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@ test_expect_success SANITY 'removal failure' '
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'nested git work tree' '
-	rm -fr foo bar &&
-	mkdir foo bar &&
+	rm -fr foo bar baz &&
+	mkdir -p foo bar baz/boo &&
 	(
 		cd foo &&
 		git init &&
@@ -412,15 +412,24 @@ test_expect_success 'nested git work tree' '
 		cd bar &&
 		>goodbye.people
 	) &&
+	(
+		cd baz/boo &&
+		git init &&
+		>deeper.world
+		git add . &&
+		git commit -a -m deeply.nested
+	) &&
 	git clean -f -d &&
 	test -f foo/.git/index &&
 	test -f foo/hello.world &&
+	test -f baz/boo/.git/index &&
+	test -f baz/boo/deeper.world &&
 	! test -d bar
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'force removal of nested git work tree' '
-	rm -fr foo bar &&
-	mkdir foo bar &&
+	rm -fr foo bar baz &&
+	mkdir -p foo bar baz/boo &&
 	(
 		cd foo &&
 		git init &&
@@ -432,9 +441,17 @@ test_expect_success 'force removal of nested git work tree' '
 		cd bar &&
 		>goodbye.people
 	) &&
+	(
+		cd baz/boo &&
+		git init &&
+		>deeper.world
+		git add . &&
+		git commit -a -m deeply.nested
+	) &&
 	git clean -f -f -d &&
 	! test -d foo &&
-	! test -d bar
+	! test -d bar &&
+	! test -d baz
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'git clean -e' '