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Re: Bug: Recursive submodules fail when the repo path contains spaces

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Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date
Jul 28, 2012, 16:21 UTC
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<20120728162132.GC98893@book.hvoigt.net>
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<9ADC1C4EF43A4237BC7971884C50C0EB@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:33:44PM -0700, Justin Spahr-Summers wrote:
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> Here's some real output, with a couple specific names removed, starting from the root of the top-level repository (where External/twui is a submodule):
> 
> $ cd External/twui
> $ git submodule add git://github.com/petejkim/expecta.git TwUITests/expecta
> Cloning into 'TwUITests/expecta'...
> remote: Counting objects: 988, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (404/404), done.
> remote: Total 988 (delta 680), reused 842 (delta 535)
> Receiving objects: 100% (988/988), 156.30 KiB, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (680/680), done.
> fatal: Not a git repository: ../../../../../../../../Volumes/drive name with spaces/Users/justin/Documents/Programming/project name with spaces/.git/modules/External/twui/modules/TwUITests/expecta
Is this a copy&paste artefact or is the path in the error truncated?
Cheers Heiko
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  1. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012
  2. Jens LehmannJul 24, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2012
  4. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoJul 24, 2012
  6. Heiko VoigtJul 28, 2012
  7. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 28, 2012
  8. Phil HordJul 29, 2012
  9. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 29, 2012
  10. Phil HordJul 29, 2012
  11. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 29, 2012
  12. Justin Spahr-SummersJul 24, 2012

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