From: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:10:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git submodule vs GIT_WORK_TREE
Message-ID: <CAD77+gSKsU6T8P6dQeZofkh3jhrKbW3yVy1XqJ0J_K-bDt-H8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FE9FF0C.8050409@web.de>

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> wrote:

> Richard, could you please tell us what git commands behave strange
> in what way and what your expectations were?

A real-life example can be found at:

  https://gist.github.com/2992239

lines 354 in the second and 353 in the third paste block.


> As far as I can see all submodule code consistently clears all
> environment variables used by git before descending into a
> submodule (at least since February 2010 and 5ce9086dd). Maybe we
> should change that so it sets the GIT_WORK_TREE environment to
> "$GIT_WORK_TREE/submodule" to be consistent?

>From how I understand the problem, this would solve it.

-- 
Richard