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Re: [BUG] `git submodule update --init --recursive` stores gitdir in full path into `.git` of nested submodules

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Mar 30, 2016, 17:24 UTC
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Norio Nomura <norio.nomura@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> `git submodule update --init --recursive` stores `gitdir` in full path into `.git` of nested submodules.
>> So, working directory is not portable to another directory.
>
> Are you reporting a regression bug? (Is that a new thing or has it
> always been that way and you just discover that it is unfortunate?)
> Which versions did you test with?

➜ 15:34:32 git:(master) git --version git version 2.8.0

at the end of your gist. The same happens when using 2.7.4, it doesn't happen when using 2.6.6 though.

It turns out ee8838d (2015-09-08, submodule: rewrite `module_clone` shell function in C) broke it.

I'll look into fixing it.

Thanks, Stefan

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>>
>> On following example, `Carthage/Checkouts/Quick/Externals/Nimble/` is nested submodule and `Carthage/Checkouts/Quick/Externals/Nimble/.git` contains full path.
>> https://gist.github.com/norio-nomura/17ce4bdf0151185e77d9b1fcfb5a469d
>>
>> Thanks,
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