# git-svn fails to initialize with submodule setup, when '.git' is a file and not a directory

1 messages from 2013-09-12 to 2013-09-12. Participants: Marc-Antoine Ruel.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/34918

## Marc-Antoine Ruel, 2013-09-12 18:45

Subject: git-svn fails to initialize with submodule setup, when '.git' is a file and not a directory
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Repro:
1. git clone --recursive a repository with submodules.
2. cd checkout/submoduleA
3. git svn init svn://host/repo

Expected:
Works as usual

Actual:
/path/to/checkout/submoduleA/.git/refs: Not a directory
init: command returned error: 1

Why:
submoduleA/.git is a file, not a directory.
$ cat /path/to/checkout/submoduleA/.git
gitdir: ../.git/modules/submoduleA

$ git --version
git version 1.8.4

Thanks,

M-A

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