# bug: depth 1 and recursive update of submodules broke in 2.9.0 2 messages from 2016-07-07 to 2016-07-07. Participants: Stephanos, Stefan Beller. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/42792 ## Stephanos, 2016-07-07 16:40 Subject: bug: depth 1 and recursive update of submodules broke in 2.9.0 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CA%2Bz9LHJmjz2DWgRAJaO29YyeEcxpSuDSFPnCJPRTnHoVMisOvQ%40mail.gmail.com ``` When I try to ˋˋˋgit clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim.gitˋˋˋ in 2.9.0, it fails with the message: ˋˋˋ Cloning into 'jedi-vim'... remote: Counting objects: 37, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (27/27), done. remote: Total 37 (delta 1), reused 16 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 Unpacking objects: 100% (37/37), done. Checking connectivity... done. Submodule 'jedi' (https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi.git) registered for path 'jedi' Cloning into '/home/stephanos/jedi-vim/jedi'... error: no such remote ref 995a6531225ba0b65e1ff863d97e5404d989047b Fetched in submodule path 'jedi', but it did not contain 995a6531225ba0b65e1ff863d97e5404d989047b. Direct fetching of that commit failed. ˋˋˋ, while with git 2.8.3 it succeeds. The commit 995a6531225ba0b65e1ff863d97e5404d989047b exists. ``` ## Stefan Beller, 2016-07-07 16:59 Subject: Re: bug: depth 1 and recursive update of submodules broke in 2.9.0 Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAGZ79kb%2BBns%3DHh0zK5EJgmV60dRED21M%2BAgPu%2Bhx-KyL4JXZ6g%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` See the discussion and bug fix at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/297687/focus=297719 This is a known regression in 2.9.0 and the fix is in the master branch already. (I think Junio will also roll it into 2.9.1) ```