From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
To: Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
Cc: "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 13:49:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kbV9y6nDuBgqLbzQ=xaroG_uF8RF6gqzk=unJ-9rrtvfw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kY6Lf6u0=s8J_cqRNFsry4nu2SdL0GZ2gkFsu6gBrB65Q@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> wrote:
> 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?
To elaborate on that: Starting in 2.7 parts of the submodule stuff
has been rewritten in C, in 2.8 even more and there is more in flight for
> 2.8.
However your bug is also to be found in 2.6, which doesn't contain any
recent rewrites, so it is a rather long standing bug, I would presume.
As a workaround for now:
echo "gitdir: ../gitdir/.git" > .git
instead of the symbolic link in your example (works in 2.6 and also in
2.8.0-rc0)
Thanks,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-01 21:49 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 [this message]
2016-03-01 23:14 ` Joey Hess
2016-03-01 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-01 23:17 ` Joey Hess
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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