Chris Wilson <[email protected]> writes: > If your git repo's .gitmodules contains a URL that you don't have > access to (for example you download someone else's code and it > references a submodule using their writable [email protected] URL) then: > > * git submodule init will add them to .git/config, with the wrong URLs. > > * git submodule update will fail to check out the repos, leaving an > empty directory for the first one, and nothing for the others. > > This state is broken (wrong URLs in .git/config), and AFAIK there's > nothing you can do to check out these submodules without either: > > (a) manually hacking them out of .git/config, or
I do not think updating the config is "hacking", but is a perfectly normal thing to do for a submodule user who wants to use a custom URL different from what is recorded in .gitmodules (even when the URL in .gitmodules is _working_, you may have a closer mirror you would prefer to use, for example). It is how the configuration is designed to be used, if I am not mistaken. So I do not see any breakage here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
