On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Justin Spahr-Summers <justin.spahrsummers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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: I can reproduce the problem now on 1.7.10.3. However the problem goes away in 1.7.12 since it was fixed in 6eafa6d096ce6b0ae20e4c0fbb248958559daf64 Author: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx> Date: Thu Jul 12 19:45:32 2012 +0200 Subject: submodules: don't stumble over symbolic links when cloning recursively Regards, Phil -- 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