On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > Submodules checked out with older versions of git not longer works in the > latest 2.19 releases. A "git submodule update --recursive" command wil fail > for each submodule with a line saying "fatal: could not open > '<submodule>/.git' for writing> Is a directory.
I couldn't reproduce after cloning with v1.6.6.3 (which creates ".git" as a directory in the tree). Is it possible for you to bisect (or perhaps share with us the broken example)? > I checked the release notes so far, and they do not say the old submodules > from git 2.16- were no longer supported, so I assume it is a bug? I don't think it was intentional. +cc Stefan for submodule expertise. -Peff
