It used to be possible to run
git submodule deinit -f .
to remove any submodules, no matter how many submodules you had. That
is no longer possible in projects that don't have any submodules at
all. The command will fail with:
error: pathspec '.' did not match any file(s) known to git.
But if I run "git submodule deinit" (without the ".") git tells me:
Use '.' if you really want to deinitialize all submodules
This is a regression introduced in Git 2.7.0 (and v2.7.0-rv0). "git
bisect" points to this commit:
commit 74703a1e4dfc5affcb8944e78b53f0817b492246 (refs/bisect/bad)
Author: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2015-09-02 14:42:24 -0700
submodule: rewrite `module_list` shell function in C
One could argue that it makes no sense to run "git submodule deinit -f
." in a repository with no submodules. I've written a continuous
integration system for a project where some branches have submodules
and other don't, and I found it convenient to don't have to treat
those branches differently.
The following shellscript demonstrates the issue. It passes on git
version before 2.7.0, and fails on later versions.
--- cut here ---
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script demonstrates the "git submodule deinit ." bug.
#
if ! mkdir subdeinit
then
echo 'Covardly refusing to alter the "subdeinit" directory.' >&2
echo 'Please remove it, or run this script inside an empty directory.' >&2
exit 1
fi
cd subdeinit
mkdir repo
cd repo
git init
echo test > test
git add test
git commit -m"Create an initial commit."
if git submodule deinit -f .
then
echo PASS: git submodule deinit -f . is allowed.
exit 0
else
echo FAIL: git submodule deinit -f . is not allowed.
exit 1
fi
--- cut here ---
Yours,
/ceder
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