Hi, $ uname -a Linux witiko 4.3.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.5-1 (2016-02-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux $ git --version git version 2.7.0 I tend to make `.git` a symlink, when I need to maintain several Git repositories inside a single directory. This was always transparent to Git, but problems arose, when working with submodules: $ mkdir -p .repos/repoA $ ln -s .repos/repoA .git $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/tmp.q3hkme6nm4/.repos/repoA/ $ git submodule add https://github.com/witiko/git-parallel Cloning into 'git-parallel'... remote: Counting objects: 212, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done. remote: Total 212 (delta 6), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 195 Receiving objects: 100% (212/212), 64.20 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (120/120), done. Checking connectivity... done. fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../git-parallel': No such file or directory Unable to checkout submodule 'git-parallel' Is this a bug, or is the ability to symlink `.git` just a happy coincidence? Best Regards, Vít -- 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