On Sunday, 29. July 2012 at 11:31, Phil Hord wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Justin Spahr-Summers > <justin.spahrsummers@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:justin.spahrsummers@xxxxxxxxx)> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 24. July 2012 at 13:26, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx (http://web.de)> writes: > > > > > > > Am 24.07.2012 21:01, schrieb Justin Spahr-Summers: > > > > > This occurs on Mac OS X 10.7.4, on git versions 1.7.10.2 (Apple Git-33) and 1.7.11.3. > > > > > > > > > > Steps: > > > > > 1. Create or clone a repository to an absolute path that contains spaces. > > > > > 2. Add a submodule to the repository, if it does not already have one. > > > > > 3. Within that submodule, attempt to add another submodule. > > > > > > > > > > The result is an error "fatal: Not a git repository", followed by the relative path to the submodule directory within .git/modules of the top-level repository. > > > > > > > > > > Similarly, using "git submodule update --init --recursive" in a freshly-cloned repository that matches the above configuration will fail with the same error. "git clone --recursive" does not seem to suffer from the same problem at clone time, but will still fail to add recursive submodules. > > > > > > > > Hmm, I don't understand how that is different from what t7407 does, it uses > > > > "git submodule update --init --recursive" in to populate recursive submodules > > > > in a freshly cloned repository whose path contains a space (in the trash > > > > directory name) in test number 8. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I can see one codepath that would behave incorrectly, especially if > > > the submodule path relative to the superproject has whitespaces in > > > it. In module_clone(), you have: > > > > > > # We already are at the root of the work tree but cd_to_toplevel will > > > # resolve any symlinks that might be present in $PWD > > > a=$(cd_to_toplevel && cd "$gitdir" && pwd)/ > > > b=$(cd_to_toplevel && cd "$sm_path" && pwd)/ > > > ... > > > # Turn each leading "*/" component into "../" > > > rel=$(echo $b | sed -e 's|[^/][^/]*|..|g') > > > echo "gitdir: $rel/$a" >"$sm_path/.git" > > > > > > I _think_ $sm_path is computed correctly by the codeflow leading to > > > this place, and $b is also computed correctly, but notice the lack > > > of quoting around $b when you echo it? It will be split at $IFS, so > > > if b='/Program Files/My Stupidity/', the sed script will see a > > > single SP between My and Stupidity, which is different from what you > > > wanted to feed, I presume. > > > > > > Having said that, I do not think git-submodule is prepared to take > > > paths with path-unsafe characters in it, given that many part of it > > > has loops like "while read mode sha1 stage sm_path" that reads from > > > ls-files/ls-tree output without -z (which means it cannot handle > > > pathnames with LF in them). > > > > > > My recommendation at this point (i.e. not a long term) for people > > > with problems Justin saw is "Don't do it then". > > > > > > > > I appreciate the debugging work. Unfortunately, none of the relative submodule paths have had whitespace in them, so I'm not sure that's the issue. > > > > Here's some real output, with a couple specific names removed, starting from the root of the top-level repository (where External/twui is a submodule): > > > > $ cd External/twui > > $ git submodule add git://github.com/petejkim/expecta.git (http://github.com/petejkim/expecta.git) TwUITests/expecta > > Cloning into 'TwUITests/expecta'... > > remote: Counting objects: 988, done. > > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (404/404), done. > > remote: Total 988 (delta 680), reused 842 (delta 535) > > Receiving objects: 100% (988/988), 156.30 KiB, done. > > Resolving deltas: 100% (680/680), done. > > fatal: Not a git repository: ../../../../../../../../Volumes/drive name with spaces/Users/justin/Documents/Programming/project name with spaces/.git/modules/External/twui/modules/TwUITests/expecta > > > > I saw something similar before but I was unable to reproduce the > conditions. In my case, my superproject was cloned with an earlier > version of git and some new submodule behaviors seemed to cause me > problems. > > Is "project name with spaces" a freshly cloned project also using, > say, 1.7.11.3? > > I am not able to reproduce the problem here on Linux using your same > example command. Hmm, you're right. After further investigation, this actually looks like a weird issue with soft links. Here's some exact output (with spacing only for clarity), using a public test repository at https://github.com/jspahrsummers/recursive-submodules-test: justin:~/ $ ls -l HDD lrwxr-xr-x 1 justin staff 34 5 Jan 2012 HDD -> /Volumes/fadelah data/Users/justin justin:~/ $ cd HDD justin:HDD/ $ pwd /Users/justin/HDD justin:HDD/ $ git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:jspahrsummers/recursive-submodules-test.git Cloning into 'recursive-submodules-test'... remote: Counting objects: 6, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. remote: Total 6 (delta 1), reused 5 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (6/6), done. Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), done. justin:HDD/ $ cd recursive-submodules-test justin:recursive-submodules-test/ (git)-[master] $ git submodule update --init --recursive Submodule 'objective-git' (git://github.com/libgit2/objective-git.git) registered for path 'objective-git' Cloning into 'objective-git'... remote: Counting objects: 2990, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (981/981), done. remote: Total 2990 (delta 2138), reused 2751 (delta 1915) Receiving objects: 100% (2990/2990), 7.20 MiB | 1.21 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2138/2138), done. Submodule path 'objective-git': checked out '58d0dc708876038e0db34447a176614956f3f480' Submodule 'libgit2' (git://github.com/libgit2/libgit2.git) registered for path 'libgit2' Cloning into 'libgit2'... remote: Counting objects: 19703, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5743/5743), done. remote: Total 19703 (delta 14448), reused 18712 (delta 13585) Receiving objects: 100% (19703/19703), 5.87 MiB | 498 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (14448/14448), done. fatal: Not a git repository: ../../../../../../Volumes/fadelah data/Users/justin/recursive-submodules-test/.git/modules/objective-git/modules/libgit2 Failed to recurse into submodule path 'objective-git' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html