Merge branch 'jl/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix' into maint

* jl/maint-fetch-submodule-check-fix:
  fetch: skip on-demand checking when no submodules are configured

Author: gitster

builtin/fetch.c

@@ -941,6 +941,15 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix,
 			     builtin_fetch_options, builtin_fetch_usage, 0);
 
+	if (recurse_submodules != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF) {
+		if (recurse_submodules_default) {
+			int arg = parse_fetch_recurse_submodules_arg("--recurse-submodules-default", recurse_submodules_default);
+			set_config_fetch_recurse_submodules(arg);
+		}
+		gitmodules_config();
+		git_config(submodule_config, NULL);
+	}
+
 	if (all) {
 		if (argc == 1)
 			die(_("fetch --all does not take a repository argument"));
@@ -976,12 +985,6 @@ int cmd_fetch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (!result && (recurse_submodules != RECURSE_SUBMODULES_OFF)) {
 		const char *options[10];
 		int num_options = 0;
-		if (recurse_submodules_default) {
-			int arg = parse_fetch_recurse_submodules_arg("--recurse-submodules-default", recurse_submodules_default);
-			set_config_fetch_recurse_submodules(arg);
-		}
-		gitmodules_config();
-		git_config(submodule_config, NULL);
 		add_options_to_argv(&num_options, options);
 		result = fetch_populated_submodules(num_options, options,
 						    submodule_prefix,

submodule.c

@@ -373,6 +373,10 @@ void check_for_new_submodule_commits(unsigned char new_sha1[20])
 	const char *argv[] = {NULL, NULL, "--not", "--all", NULL};
 	int argc = ARRAY_SIZE(argv) - 1;
 
+	/* No need to check if there are no submodules configured */
+	if (!config_name_for_path.nr)
+		return;
+
 	init_revisions(&rev, NULL);
 	argv[1] = xstrdup(sha1_to_hex(new_sha1));
 	setup_revisions(argc, argv, &rev, NULL);