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Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink

From
Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date
Mar 1, 2016, 23:17 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> A more pertinent question may be which version of Git did the above
> ever work, I guess.  We fairly liberally chdir around and I do not
> think we deliberately avoid assuming that "cd .git && cd .." might
> not come back to the original directory, for example, so I wouldn't
> be surprised if it never worked.

IIRC git used symlinks for .git in submodules before version 1.7.8, so I guess that older versions supported that pretty well.

This one case is the only time I've seen a symlink for .git present a problem so far.

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