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Re: Submodule's .git file contains absolute path when created using 'git clone --recursive'

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
May 5, 2016, 17:22 UTC
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On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Loet Avramson <loet@forter.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> According to git-clone man page - running 'git clone --recursive' "...is
> equivalent to running 'git submodule update --init --recursive' immediately
> after the clone is finished...", though I found a little difference between
> the two regarding the submodule's .git file:
>
> 1. Running 'git clone' and 'git submodule update --init --recursive'
> separately will create the .git file in each submodule containing a relative
> path to the superproject's .git directory as expected.
>
> 2. Running 'git clone --recursive' will create the .git file containing an
> *absolute* path to the superproject's .git directory. (as it was expected
> using git versions 1.7.8 - 1.7.10 as far as I understand)
>
> Not sure if that's a bug but it got stuff behaving really weird in a specific
> usecase on one of our environments. It would be highly appreciated to update
> the docs at least.
Which version of Git are you using?

See[1] for how clone handles submodules. (It's a call to submodule update --init --recursive)

There was a bug with recursive submodules in the 2.7 time frame and that got fixed in [2].

So could you make sure your version of Git contains these fixes?

[1] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git/+/master/builtin/clone.c#734 [2] https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git/+/7307dd898988c79fc687051e783b3cac8488a559 specially https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git/+/f8eaa0ba98b3bd9cb9035eba184a2d9806d30b27

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>
> Thanks.
>
>  -Loet
>
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  1. Loet AvramsonMay 5, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2016
  3. Stefan BellerMay 5, 2016
  4. Loet AvramsonMay 5, 2016
  5. Stefan BellerMay 5, 2016
  6. Ricardo Sánchez-SáezJul 12, 2016
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