From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:06:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] submodule init: fail gracefully with a missing .gitmodules file
Message-ID: <xmqq4mak1h04.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1461873766-14703-1-git-send-email-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> When there is no .gitmodules file availabe to initialize a submodule
> from, `submodule_from_path` just returns NULL. We need to check for
> that and abort gracefully. When `submodule init` was implemented in shell,
> a missing .gitmodules file would result in an error message
>
>     No url found for submodule path '%s' in .gitmodules
>
> Replicate that error message for now.

Good to start from a faithful conversion.  Thanks for adding a test,
too.

Will queue.