Hi all, This is with git 1.8.0.1 on all the machines involved. One of our build machines is having trouble with "git submodule": $ git submodule init external/openssl No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path '' (.gitmodules and other aspects of the repo are fine -- the submodules work perfectly on other machines.) The problem seems to be in cmd_init() with the construct module_list "$@" | while read mode sha1 stage sm_path do ... Explicitly setting IFS before the call to module_list makes it work: IFS=" " module_list "$@" | while read mode sha1 stage sm_path do ... If IFS is unset, the "while read" loop ends up with everything in the $mode variable, and the other 3 variables are empty. If I isolate module_list() and a simple "while read" loop into a standalone script, like this: module_list() { ... } module_list "$@" | while read mode sha1 stage sm_path do echo - $mode - $sha1 - $stage - $sm_path - done It works -- each individual variable is set properly. It seems that the problem only occurs inside git-submodule.sh. Any ideas? M. -- 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