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From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 13:39:26 -0800
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name> wrote:
>         git init gitdir
>         mkdir worktree
>         cd worktree
>         ln -s ../gitdir/.git .git
>         git submodule add /any/git/repo sub
>
>         fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub': No such file or directory
>
> Fairly sure this is a bug..

Which version(s) of Git do you use?