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

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Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
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Jul 29, 2012, 21:10 UTC
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Justin Spahr-Summers <justin.spahrsummers@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, you're right. After further investigation, this actually looks like a weird issue with soft links. Here's some exact output (with spacing only for clarity), using a public test repository at https://github.com/jspahrsummers/recursive-submodules-test:

I can reproduce the problem now on 1.7.10.3. However the problem goes away in 1.7.12 since it was fixed in

6eafa6d096ce6b0ae20e4c0fbb248958559daf64
Author: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Date:   Thu Jul 12 19:45:32 2012 +0200
Subject: submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively

Regards, Phil

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