Stefan Beller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:53 AM Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jen...@qt.io>
> 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 have the suspicion that e98317508c0 (submodule:
> ensure core.worktree is set after update, 2018-06-18)
> might be the offender.
I still was not able to reproduce it, but after a bit of staring at
the code, I'm pretty sure I just did something wrong in the
reproduction process. That commit is indeed the offender.
It introduces the following code (rewrapped for clarity) in
git-submodule.sh:
if ! $(
git config -f \
"$(git rev-parse
--git-common-dir)/modules/$name/config" \
core.worktree
) 2>/dev/null
then
git submodule--helper connect-gitdir-workingtree "$name"
"$sm_path"
fi
Staring at it for a while, you can see one problem: the 'if ! $(git
config)' should be simply 'if ! git config'. This ends up trying to
run the core.worktree value as a command, which would usually fail.
That brings us into connect_work_tree_and_git_dir, which does
/* Prepare .git file */
strbuf_addf(&gitfile_sb, "%s/.git", work_tree_);
if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(gitfile_sb.buf))
die(_("could not create directories for %s"), gitfile_sb.buf);
/* Prepare config file */
strbuf_addf(&cfg_sb, "%s/config", git_dir_);
if (safe_create_leading_directories_const(cfg_sb.buf))
die(_("could not create directories for %s"), cfg_sb.buf);
git_dir = real_pathdup(git_dir_, 1);
work_tree = real_pathdup(work_tree_, 1);
/* Write .git file */
write_file(gitfile_sb.buf, "gitdir: %s",
relative_path(git_dir, work_tree, &rel_path));
The write_file runs into .git already existing as a directory, failing
with the message Allan saw.
This would happen in at least two cases:
- if the submodule exists both in .git/modules/ *and* in the worktree
(due to flipping between Git versions and branches with and without
the submodule), the above will happen
- likewise if the submodule exists only in the worktree, like for Allan.
In "next" there is 74d4731d (submodule--helper: replace
connect-gitdir-workingtree by ensure-core-worktree, 2018-08-13) which
uses robust helpers in C that handle this much better. I think we
should revert e98317508c0 in "master" (for 2.19) and keep making use
of that 'second try' in "next" (for 2.20).
I'll try to pin down a reproduction case and send a revert + testsuite
patch.
Thanks again,
Jonathan
