From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:17:20 GMT
Subject: Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink
Message-ID: <20160301231720.GB3731@kitenet.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8u217tqa.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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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