Re: Relative url values in .gitmodules confusingly sensitive to clone via ssh vs https.

[Benjamin Shropshire <benjamin.shropshire@economicmodeling.com>]

$ git --version
git version 2.20.1

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 6:11 PM brian m. carlson
<sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>
> On 2020-03-17 at 18:34:09, Benjamin Shropshire wrote:
> > From my perspective, this is a bug.
> >
> > If I clone a repo twice like this:
> >
> > git clone https://github.com/user/repo.git ./https
> > git clone git@github.com:user/repo.git ./ssh
> >
> > And if it contains a .gitmodules like this:
> >
> > [submodule "x"]
> >     path = xxx
> >     url = ../../different-user/something.git
> >
> > When I `git submodule update --init --recursive` in each, only the
> > HTTPS version works. the SSH version confusingly seems to try to find
> > something at ~/different-user/something.git or some other path in the
> > local file system.
>
> What version of Git are you using?  This works fine for me on a recent
> next.  In addition, I see we have tests for this in t0060, and adding an
> additional case for this appears to pass.
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