Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2016, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8u217tqa.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kY6Lf6u0=s8J_cqRNFsry4nu2SdL0GZ2gkFsu6gBrB65Q@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
>>         git init gitdir
>>         mkdir worktree
>>         cd worktree
>>         ln -s ../gitdir/.git .git
>>         git submodule add /any/git/repo sub
>>
>>         fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub': No such file or directory
>>
>> Fairly sure this is a bug..
>
> Which version(s) of Git do you use?

A more pertinent question may be which version of Git did the above ever work, I guess. We fairly liberally chdir around and I do not think we deliberately avoid assuming that "cd .git && cd .." might not come back to the original directory, for example, so I wouldn't be surprised if it never worked.