Re: Bug: Recursive submodules fail when the repo path contains spaces

From: Justin Spahr-Summers <justin.spahrsummers@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 28, 2012, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID: <AE66EC4E32FD431287B84B3A0DBEEE3B@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120728162132.GC98893@book.hvoigt.net>

On Saturday, 28. July 2012 at 09:21, Heiko Voigt wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:33:44PM -0700, Justin Spahr-Summers wrote:
> > Here's some real output, with a couple specific names removed, starting from the root of the top-level repository (where External/twui is a submodule):
> > 
> > $ cd External/twui
> > $ git submodule add git://github.com/petejkim/expecta.git (http://github.com/petejkim/expecta.git) TwUITests/expecta
> > Cloning into 'TwUITests/expecta'...
> > remote: Counting objects: 988, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (404/404), done.
> > remote: Total 988 (delta 680), reused 842 (delta 535)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (988/988), 156.30 KiB, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (680/680), done.
> > fatal: Not a git repository: ../../../../../../../../Volumes/drive name with spaces/Users/justin/Documents/Programming/project name with spaces/.git/modules/External/twui/modules/TwUITests/expecta
> 
> 
> 
> Is this a copy&paste artefact or is the path in the error truncated?

There's apparently some weird wrapping from my email client (the git error is on a single line in the terminal), but there is no truncation. That's the full path. Thanks for clarifying, though.