One of the first things that happens in most submodule sub commands is

    git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix"

Currently the passed --prefix is used for doing path calculation
as if we were in that path relative to the repository root, which is
why we need to pass "$wt_prefix". The more common way in Git however
would be to use

    git -C "$wt_prefix" submodule--helper list

which I want to change later. That way however does not just
pass the prefix into the submodule command, but also changes
into that directory.

Say you have the following setup

repo/ # a superproject repository
repo/untracked/ # an untracked dir in repo/
repo/sub/ # a submodule
repo/sub/subsub # a submodule of a submodule

When in repo/untracked/ and invoking "git submodule status --recursive",
the recursed instance of the latter version for listing submodules would
try to change into the directory repo/sub/untracked, which is a bug.
This happens as we cd into the submodule in git-submodule.sh without
clearing wt_prefix, which is the assumed relative path inside the working
directory.

Most times that directory doesn't exist and we error out. Fix this bug
by clearing wt_prefix, such that any recursive instances of will assume
to operate from the respective root of the respective submodule.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <[email protected]>
---
 git-submodule.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 536ba68..6b18a03 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -827,6 +827,7 @@ Maybe you want to use 'update --init'?")"
                        (
                                prefix="$(relative_path $prefix$sm_path)/"
                                clear_local_git_env
+                               wt_prefix=
                                cd "$sm_path" &&
                                eval cmd_update
                        )
@@ -1159,6 +1160,7 @@ cmd_status()
                        (
                                prefix="$displaypath/"
                                clear_local_git_env
+                               wt_prefix=
                                cd "$sm_path" &&
                                eval cmd_status
                        ) ||
@@ -1240,6 +1242,7 @@ cmd_sync()
 
                                if test -n "$recursive"
                                then
+                                       wt_prefix=
                                        eval cmd_sync
                                fi
                        )
-- 
2.8.0.rc4.10.g52f3f33

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