Re: [PATCH] submodule add: sanity check existing .gitmodules

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Nov 25, 2025, 14:33 UTC

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Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> writes:

>> no definition of submodule.<name>.path variable, it accessing the
>
> accessing => tries to access
>   (or accessing => accesses)

>> A helper used by update_submodule() seems to assume that its call to
>> submodule_from_path() always yields a submodule object without a
>> failure, which seems to rely on the caller's making sure it is the
>
> caller's => caller ?

Thanks.