On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Stefan Beller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Joey Hess <[email protected]> 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
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