Thanks Junio, Eric and Jacob for review! v2: * reworded commit message for test (Thanks Junio!) * instead of "simplifying" the path handling in patch 2, we are prepared for anything the user throws at us (i.e. instead of segfault we die(_("submodule--helper: unspecified or empty --path")); (Thanks Eric, Jacob for pushing back here!) * reword commit message for patch 3 (safe_create_leading_directories_const is not a check, Thanks Junio!) * patch 4 (the fix): That got reworked completely. No flow controlling conditions in the write out phase! * patch 5 is a bonus! (replace fprintf by fprintf_or die) When implementing that I wondered if we also have close_or_die and open_or_die, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Thanks, Stefan v1: It took me longer than expected to fix this bug. It comes with a test and minor refactoring and applies on top of origin/sb/submodule-helper, such that it can be merged into 2.7, 2.8 as well as master. Patch 1 is a test which fails; it has a similar layout as the real failing repository Norio Nomura pointed out, but simplified to the bare essentials for reproduction of the bug. Patch 2&3 are not strictly necessary for fixing the isseu, but it removes stupid code I wrote, so the resulting code looks a little better. Patch 4 fixes the issue by giving more information to relative_path, such that a relative path can be found in all cases. Thanks, Stefan Stefan Beller (5): recursive submodules: test for relative paths submodule--helper clone: simplify path check submodule--helper clone: remove double path checking submodule--helper, module_clone: always operate on absolute paths submodule--helper, module_clone: catch fprintf failure builtin/submodule--helper.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 70 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0.264.g39f00fe -- 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