Re: Possible bug: Git submodules can get into broken state

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Hi Junio,

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote:

This state is broken (wrong URLs in .git/config), and AFAIK there's
nothing you can do to check out these submodules without either:

(a) manually hacking them out of .git/config, or

I do not think updating the config is "hacking", but is a perfectly
normal thing to do for a submodule user who wants to use a custom
URL different from what is recorded in .gitmodules (even when the
URL in .gitmodules is _working_, you may have a closer mirror you
would prefer to use, for example).  It is how the configuration is
designed to be used, if I am not mistaken.

It may be possible, but there's no easy command to do it, especially in automated (fabric) deployment scripts. I do not want to write an awk/sed script to remove all the submodules from .git/config so that I can successfully run git submodule init again. What other choices do I have?

So I do not see any breakage here.

I do, it seems bizarre that git submodule init can create this situation but cannot rectify it.

Cheers, Chris.
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