Bug with "git submodule update" + subrepo with differing path/name?

From: Andreas Urke <arurke@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 18, 2017, 23:18 UTC
Message-ID: <CAFBGMVPBwxeSXCTcoBdxDbYtJo-38w=tf4T6-rNWuys=3drP+A@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

I have a repo with two submodules. I regularly use "git submodule update", which works fine for one subrepo, but not for the other. The only relevant difference I can think of between these two subrepos is that the latter one does not have a matching path and name:

$ cat .gitmodules
[submodule "subrepo1"]
    path = subrepo1
    url = git@gitlab.com:subrepo1.git
[submodule "name_subrepo2"]
    path = subrepo2
    url = git@gitlab.com:name_subrepo2.git

And a reproduction looks like this:

$ git --version git version 2.15.1

$ git status HEAD detached at 05412d4 Changes not staged for commit:

modified: subrepo1 (new commits) modified: subrepo2 (new commits)

$ git submodule update Submodule path 'subrepo1': checked out 'e4785498130ec4188bb1745f27e311bff08ed4c8'

$ git status HEAD detached at 05412d4 Changes not staged for commit:

modified:   subrepo2  (new commits)

Checking out the relevant commit manually in subrepo2 works fine (and is what I end up doing).

Regards, Andreas Urke