Duy Nguyen wrote: > 044bbbc (Make git_dir a path relative to work_tree in > setup_work_tree() - 2008-06-19) Okay, so it does seem to be a significant optimization. Frankly, e02ca72 only improves the relative_path() algorithm, and it's not really doing anything Wrong: it's has just uncovered a previously undiscovered bug. So far, we know that the line: s->fp = fopen(git_path(commit_editmsg), "w"); in commit.c:prepare_to_commit() isn't failing; so, the work_tree and git_dir do seem to be set correctly. The problem seems to be in launch_editor(). What's worse? Everything works just fine when I have a symbolic link to a directory in a normal repository; I still can't figure out what submodules have to do with any of this. What the hell is going on?! -- 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