From: Justin Spahr-Summers Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:01:30 GMT Subject: Bug: Recursive submodules fail when the repo path contains spaces Message-ID: <1CE02EC2D88646D48EE7B7D71AD36234@gmail.com> This occurs on Mac OS X 10.7.4, on git versions 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33) and 1.7.11.3. Steps: 1. Create or clone a repository to an absolute path that contains spaces. 2. Add a submodule to the repository, if it does not already have one. 3. Within that submodule, attempt to add another submodule. The result is an error "fatal: Not a git repository", followed by the relative path to the submodule directory within .git/modules of the top-level repository. Similarly, using "git submodule update --init --recursive" in a freshly-cloned repository that matches the above configuration will fail with the same error. "git clone --recursive" does not seem to suffer from the same problem at clone time, but will still fail to add recursive submodules. -- Justin Spahr-Summers