# Submodule status inside nested submodule fails 5 messages from 2012-02-24 to 2012-05-10. Participants: Charles Brossollet, rollinsdr@gmail.com, Heiko Voigt. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29721 ## Charles Brossollet, 2012-02-24 09:53 Subject: Submodule status inside nested submodule fails Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20120224T104003-230%40post.gmane.org ``` Hello there, Using MSysGit 1.7.9 on Win7 (64 bit), I have a repo with the following structure: main/ src/ ext/ submodule/ modules/module1 modules/module2 submodule is... a submodule, having itself submodules. When I query submodule status --recursive in main/, no problem. But when I query submodule status in ext/submodule, I get error "You need to run this command from the toplevel of the working tree.", which is a wrong error message. Searching for message in git source I found the test triggering the message to be an empty result for "git rev-parse --show-cdup". Running the command in ext/submodule strangely returns the *absolute* path of ext/submodule, which should not happen because this command returns path of current dir relative to the containing working tree. Is there something wrong with my repo? Or have I found a bug? Any help appreciated Charles ``` ## Charles Brossollet, 2012-02-24 13:41 Subject: Re: Submodule status inside nested submodule fails Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20120224T142455-253%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: ``` Charles Brossollet lltech.fr> writes: > Searching for message in git source I found the test triggering the message to > be an empty result for "git rev-parse --show-cdup". Running the command in > ext/submodule strangely returns the *absolute* path of ext/submodule, which > should not happen because this command returns path of current dir relative to > the containing working tree. Things are OK if I run the commands from Windows' CMD, but it fails when run in MinGW shell, so I believe the problem is related to MsysGit, discussion follows up on their list. ``` ## rollinsdr@gmail.com, 2012-05-08 18:11 Subject: Re: Submodule status inside nested submodule fails Message-ID: <1336500675427-7540130.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1336500675427-7540130.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: ``` I'm having the same issue. Did it ever get resolved, or is there a hack to fix it, or is there some link I can track it on? Thanks in advance for the help! Charles Brossollet wrote > > Charles Brossollet lltech.fr> writes: > Using MSysGit 1.7.9 on Win7 (64 bit), I have a repo with the following > structure: > > main/ > src/ > ext/ > submodule/ > modules/module1 > modules/module2 > > submodule is... a submodule, having itself submodules. > > When I query submodule status --recursive in main/, no problem. > But when I query submodule status in ext/submodule, I get error "You need > to > run this command from the toplevel of the working tree.", which is a wrong > error message. > > Searching for message in git source I found the test triggering the > message to > be an empty result for "git rev-parse --show-cdup". Running the command in > ext/submodule strangely returns the *absolute* path of ext/submodule, > which > should not happen because this command returns path of current dir > relative to > the containing working tree. > > Is there something wrong with my repo? Or have I found a bug? Any help > appreciated > Charles Brossollet wrote > > Charles Brossollet lltech.fr> writes: > >> Searching for message in git source I found the test triggering the >> message to >> be an empty result for "git rev-parse --show-cdup". Running the command >> in >> ext/submodule strangely returns the *absolute* path of ext/submodule, >> which >> should not happen because this command returns path of current dir >> relative to >> the containing working tree. > > Things are OK if I run the commands from Windows' CMD, but it fails when > run in > MinGW shell, so I believe the problem is related to MsysGit, discussion > follows > up on their list. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@.kernel > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Submodule-status-inside-nested-submodule-fails-tp7314413p7540130.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Heiko Voigt, 2012-05-09 21:34 Subject: Re: Submodule status inside nested submodule fails Message-ID: <20120509213443.GA74366@book.hvoigt.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20120509213443.GA74366%40book.hvoigt.net In-Reply-To: <1336500675427-7540130.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Hi, On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:11:15AM -0700, rollinsdr@gmail.com wrote: > I'm having the same issue. Did it ever get resolved, or is there a hack to > fix it, or is there some link I can track it on? > > > Charles Brossollet wrote > > > > Charles Brossollet lltech.fr> writes: > > Using MSysGit 1.7.9 on Win7 (64 bit), I have a repo with the following > > structure: > > > > main/ > > src/ > > ext/ > > submodule/ > > modules/module1 > > modules/module2 > > > > submodule is... a submodule, having itself submodules. > > > > When I query submodule status --recursive in main/, no problem. > > But when I query submodule status in ext/submodule, I get error "You need Without having looked at the code itself this smells like an issue with the newly introduced gitlink files and git rev-parse --show-cdup not taking this into account. I will have a look at this issue. Cheers Heiko ``` ## rollinsdr@gmail.com, 2012-05-10 01:40 Subject: Re: Submodule status inside nested submodule fails Message-ID: <1336614004527-7545109.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1336614004527-7545109.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <20120509213443.GA74366@book.hvoigt.net> ``` Thanks Heiko, Heiko Voigt-3 wrote > > Hi, > > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 11:11:15AM -0700, rollinsdr@ wrote: >> I'm having the same issue. Did it ever get resolved, or is there a hack >> to >> fix it, or is there some link I can track it on? >> >> >> Charles Brossollet wrote >> > >> > Charles Brossollet lltech.fr> writes: >> > Using MSysGit 1.7.9 on Win7 (64 bit), I have a repo with the following >> > structure: >> > >> > main/ >> > src/ >> > ext/ >> > submodule/ >> > modules/module1 >> > modules/module2 >> > >> > submodule is... a submodule, having itself submodules. >> > >> > When I query submodule status --recursive in main/, no problem. >> > But when I query submodule status in ext/submodule, I get error "You >> need > > Without having looked at the code itself this smells like an issue with > the newly introduced gitlink files and git rev-parse --show-cdup not > taking this into account. > > I will have a look at this issue. > > Cheers Heiko > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@.kernel > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Actually the issue went away once I upgraded from 1.7.9 to 1.7.10, and re-cloned my repo. I guess it was fixed in 1.7.10, but some stuff in the config files had to be rewritten during the new clone to fix the issue b/c just switching to 1.7.10 and trying to use the existing repo still had the same issue. Thanks for all the work you guys do! DAVE -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/Submodule-status-inside-nested-submodule-fails-tp7314413p7545109.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```