From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:30:41 GMT Subject: Re: Possible bug: Git submodules can get into broken state Message-ID: <7vmwtei1wu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Chris Wilson writes: > If your git repo's .gitmodules contains a URL that you don't have > access to (for example you download someone else's code and it > references a submodule using their writable git@github.com URL) then: > > * git submodule init will add them to .git/config, with the wrong URLs. > > * git submodule update will fail to check out the repos, leaving an > empty directory for the first one, and nothing for the others. > > This state is broken (wrong URLs in .git/config), and AFAIK there's > nothing you can do to check out these submodules without either: > > (a) manually hacking them out of .git/config, or I do not think updating the config is "hacking", but is a perfectly normal thing to do for a submodule user who wants to use a custom URL different from what is recorded in .gitmodules (even when the URL in .gitmodules is _working_, you may have a closer mirror you would prefer to use, for example). It is how the configuration is designed to be used, if I am not mistaken. So I do not see any breakage here.