Re: Relative url values in .gitmodules confusingly sensitive to clone via ssh vs https.

From: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2020, 01:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20200323011117.GC6499@camp.crustytoothpaste.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAAjm7Ga5JOJ2w=01o1-x-80HMGVaYQQy8SBBb-zJ6MOQAe4SxQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2020-03-17 at 18:34:09, Benjamin Shropshire wrote:

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> From my perspective, this is a bug.
> 
> If I clone a repo twice like this:
> 
> git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git ./https
> git clone git@github.com:user/repo.git ./ssh
> 
> And if it contains a .gitmodules like this:
> 
> [submodule "x"]
>     path = xxx
>     url = ../../different-user/something.git
> 
> When I `git submodule update --init --recursive` in each, only the
> HTTPS version works. the SSH version confusingly seems to try to find
> something at ~/different-user/something.git or some other path in the
> local file system.

What version of Git are you using? This works fine for me on a recent next. In addition, I see we have tests for this in t0060, and adding an additional case for this appears to pass.

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