On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:49 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 07:17:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>>
>>> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> > A more pertinent question may be which version of Git did the above
>>> > ever work, I guess. We fairly liberally chdir around and I do not
>>> > think we deliberately avoid assuming that "cd .git && cd .." might
>>> > not come back to the original directory, for example, so I wouldn't
>>> > be surprised if it never worked.
>>>
>>> IIRC git used symlinks for .git in submodules before version 1.7.8, so I
>>> guess that older versions supported that pretty well.
>>>
>>> This one case is the only time I've seen a symlink for .git present a
>>> problem so far.
>>
>> Fortunately you provided a simple reproduction case, so it is easy to
>> bisect. It did work in v1.7.8, and broke in d75219b (submodules: always
>> use a relative path from gitdir to work tree, 2012-03-04). Not
>> surprising, I guess. It presumably worked before only because we were
>> using absolute paths.
>
> So I was looking into this bug again, as it was linked from another bug report.
>
> fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub': No such file or directory
>
> sounds like a path issue with the prefix thing.
>
> Using the " echo "gitdir: ../gitdir/.git" > .git" workaround does still work,
> I'll see if there is another way to fix it with actual links.
So I debugged into that using a test case
test_expect_success 'submodules are not confused by linked gitdir' '
git init gitdir &&
mkdir worktree &&
(
cd worktree &&
#echo "gitdir: ../gitdir/.git" >.git &&
ln -s ../gitdir/.git .git &&
test_pause &&
git submodule add ../ sub &&
test_pause
) &&
test_pause &&
git status
'
My observation: the error comes up in `git submodule add`,
which consists of 2 parts: the cloning and then the checkout.
The cloning works fine using the new "submodule--helper update-clone",
the checkout however breaks. So in your original test case you can go
into the submodule and run
git checkout -f -q
and you'll get the error message
fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub': No such file or directory
Looking at sub/.git:
$ cat .git
gitdir: ../.git/modules/sub
$ ls ../.git/modules/sub
HEAD branches config description hooks info logs objects
packed-refs ref
so that gitlink of the submodule works just fine. The problem is `git checkout`
or any other core command (I tested with `git status`) doesn't like
the gitlink pointing to a directory which is symlinked.
I think the issue is a wrongly configured "core.worktree"
in gitdir/.git/modules/sub/config which contains the "../../../sub".
So I think the fix needs to be in the vicinity of
builtin/submodule--helper.c:module_clone
near the end of the function, where core.worktree is set.
Thanks,
Stefan
>
>
>>
>> -Peff
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