From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:07:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Possible bug: Git submodules can get into broken state
Message-ID: <7vr4iqgg2w.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1304042138100.965@lap-x201.fen.aptivate.org>

Chris Wilson <chris@aptivate.org> writes:

>  I do not want to write an
> awk/sed script to remove all the submodules from .git/config ...

Don't do it then ;-)

I think "git config" was added exactly because people wanted to
customize their configuration from their scripts.

> I do, it seems bizarre that git submodule init can create this
> situation but cannot rectify it.

I do not see there is anything to rectify in your situation.

Whoever wrote .gitmodules may have supplied a URL you cannot access,
and the configuration mechanism is the way to use custom URL in
place of it.