Dear Git Folks, I do realize that the situation is quite uncommon, partially I guess due to git submodules mechanism flexibility and power on one hand and under-use (imho) on the other, which leads to discovery of regressions [e.g. 1] and corner cases as mine. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/288064 [2] http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/git-web-submodules.sh My use case: We are trying to serve a git repository with submodules specified with relative paths over http from a simple web server. With a demo case and submodule specification [complete script to reproduce including the webserver using python is at 2] such as (git)hopa:/tmp/gitxxmsxYFO[master]git $> tree . ├── f1 └── sub1 └── f2 $> cat .gitmodules [submodule "sub1"] path = sub1 url = ./sub1 1. After cloning git clone http://localhost:8080/.git I cannot 'submodule update' the sub1 in the clone since its url after 'submodule init' would be http://localhost:8080/.git/sub1 . If I manually fix it up -- it seems to proceed normally since in original repository I have sub1/.git/ directory and not the "gitlink" for that submodule. 2. If I serve the clone [2 demos that too] itself, there is no easy remedy at all since sub1/.git is not a directory but a gitlink. N.B. I haven't approached nested submodules case yet in [2] I wondered a. could 'git clone' (probably actually some relevant helper used by fetch etc) acquire ability to sense for URL/.git if URL itself doesn't point to a usable git repository? I think this could provide complete remedy for 1 since then relative urls would be properly assembled, with similar 'sensing' for /.git for the final urls I guess we could do it with rewrites/forwards on the "server side", but it wouldn't be generally acceptable solution. b. is there a better or already existing way to remedy my situation? c. shouldn't "git clone" (or the relevant helper) be aware of remote /.git possibly being a gitlink file within submodule? Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback on this case. P.S. Please maintain the CC list in replies. -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- 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