Re: Bug: submodules of submodules use absolute gitdir in .git file (instead of relative)

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Jun 27, 2017, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kZmV9Aufrsmf1iohhP5qHzA4AZ3DDv8sn1GMaCZ+SbV5Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqr2y531xv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer@rohde-schwarz.com> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> $ git submodule foreach cat .git
>>
>> ...shows that the gitdir registered in the .git file of submodules is relative. But if you run
>>
>> $ git submodule foreach --recursive cat .git
>>
>> ...shows that submodules of submodules (if you have any) have an absolute gitdir starting with a slash.
>>
>> 1) Can you confirm that behavior?
>
> Nobody can without knowing which version of Git you are using.  I
> suspect that we had discussed and addressed something related to
> nested submodule's "gitdir" pointer in not-so-distant past.

Yeah there was a period in time where we had this bug. (Or is it a different bug?) See 90c0011619 (submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting, 2016-12-08), which is included in 2.12.