On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 04:17:29PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > $ git init abc > $ cd abc > $ mkdir def > $ echo 'gitdir: blah blah' >def/.git > $ git ls-files -o > fatal: Not a git repository: def/blah blah > > If some directory looks like a submodule but turns out not, that's not > a fatal error. The stack trace is something like this. I suspect > do_submodule_path should use the gently version.. > > #1 0x0000000000588a78 in die > #2 0x0000000000558ded in read_gitfile_gently > #3 0x000000000051e2f6 in do_submodule_path > #4 0x000000000051e484 in git_pathdup_submodule > #5 0x00000000005340ac in resolve_gitlink_ref_recursive > #6 0x00000000005342cf in resolve_gitlink_ref > #7 0x00000000004dd20d in treat_directory > #8 0x00000000004dd760 in treat_one_path > #9 0x00000000004dd971 in treat_path > #10 0x00000000004de038 in read_directory_recursive I think we'd have to change the semantics going up the stack, as do_submodule_path has no way to report failure. But I think this is another case of http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/265560/focus=281253 There the question was about performance (lots of these clog up the linear ref_cache list), but I think the root cause is the same: going too far into ref resolution without realizing we don't have a real submodule. Andreas posted some patches, but they didn't make it to the list. Here are my replies, which did: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/282028 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/282029 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/282030 However, from going over them, I think there was a problem in the series; we really do need to know the sha1 in some of these cases. So I think maybe the simplest thing would be to catch this case in resolve_gitlink_ref(), before we go deeper. Let me see if I can come up with something. -Peff -- 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