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Old submodules broken in 2.19rc1 and 2.19rc2

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AJAllan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@qt.io>
Date
Sep 7, 2018, 09:52 UTC
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<2659750.rG6xLiZASK@twilight>

Submodules checked out with older versions of git not longer works in the latest 2.19 releases. 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 checked the release notes so far, and they do not say the old submodules from git 2.16- were no longer supported, so I assume it is a bug?

'Allan
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  1. Allan Sandfeld JensenSep 7, 2018
  2. Jeff KingSep 7, 2018
  3. Allan Sandfeld JensenSep 7, 2018
  4. Jonathan NiederSep 7, 2018
  5. Stefan BellerSep 7, 2018
  6. Jonathan NiederSep 7, 2018
  7. Jonathan NiederSep 7, 2018
  8. Stefan BellerSep 7, 2018
  9. Revert "Merge branch 'sb/submodule-core-worktree'" (was Re: Old submodules broken in 2.19rc1 and 2.19rc2)Jonathan Nieder, Sep 8, 2018
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2018
  11. Johannes SixtSep 8, 2018
  12. Stefan BellerSep 10, 2018
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2018
  14. Allan Sandfeld JensenSep 7, 2018

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