Re: Regression: submodule worktrees can clobber core.worktree config

>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 5:56 AM Tomasz Śniatowski <tsniatowski@vewd.com> wrote:
> >
> > After upgrading to 2.20.1 I noticed in some submodule+worktree scenarios git
> > will break the submodule configuration. Reproducible with:
> >     git init a && (cd a; touch a; git add a; git commit -ma)
> >     git init b && (cd b; git submodule add ../a; git commit -mb)
> >     git -C b worktree add ../b2
> >     git -C b/a worktree add ../../b2/a
> >     git -C b status
> >     git -C b2 submodule update
> >     git -C b status
> >
> > The submodule update in the _worktree_ puts an invalid core.worktree value in
> > the _original_ repository submodule config (b/.git/modules/a/config), causing
> > the last git status to error out with:
> >     fatal: cannot chdir to '../../../../../../b2/a': No such file or directory
> >     fatal: 'git status --porcelain=2' failed in submodule a
> >
> > Looking at the config file itself, the submodule update operation applies the
> > following change (the new path is invalid):
> >     -       worktree = ../../../a
> >     +       worktree = ../../../../../../b2/a
> >
> > This worked fine on 2.19.2 (no config change, no error), and was useful to have
> > a worktree with (large) submodules that are also worktrees.
>
> This scenario is not supported (or at least known to be broken in
> theory) so I wouldn't call this a regression even if it happens to
> work on 2.19.2 for some reason.