From: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:17:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160301231720.GB3731@kitenet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8u217tqa.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.
IIRC git used symlinks for .git in submodules before version 1.7.8, so I
guess that older versions supported that pretty well.
This one case is the only time I've seen a symlink for .git present a
problem so far.
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see shy jo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-01 20:42 bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink Joey Hess
2016-03-01 21:39 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-01 21:49 ` Stefan Beller
2016-03-01 23:14 ` Joey Hess
2016-03-01 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-01 23:17 ` Joey Hess [this message]
2016-03-02 8:49 ` Jeff King
2016-04-20 16:41 ` Stefan Beller
2016-04-20 17:31 ` Stefan Beller
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