Re: Old submodules broken in 2.19rc1 and 2.19rc2

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 7, 2018, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20180907202007.GC103699@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kaVQ0T=acpviOoD+8XVxYsefNkO7c5d+d0Wc0iCbr2Evw@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:53 AM Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@qt.io> wrote:

>>                       A "git submodule update --recursive" command wil fail
>> for each submodule with a line saying "fatal: could not open
>> '<submodule>/.git' for writing> Is a directory.

[...]

> I have the suspicion that e98317508c0 (submodule:
> ensure core.worktree is set after update, 2018-06-18)
> might be the offender.

Oh!  That seems likely.

Allan, output from "strace -f git submodule update --init" would also be interesting.

Jonathan