Re: Submodule's .git file contains absolute path when created using 'git clone --recursive'

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Loet Avramson <loet@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> According to git-clone man page - running 'git clone --recursive' "...is 
> equivalent to running 'git submodule update --init --recursive' immediately 
> after the clone is finished...", though I found a little difference between 
> the two regarding the submodule's .git file:
>
> 1. Running 'git clone' and 'git submodule update --init --recursive' 
> separately will create the .git file in each submodule containing a relative 
> path to the superproject's .git directory as expected.
>
> 2. Running 'git clone --recursive' will create the .git file containing an 
> *absolute* path to the superproject's .git directory. (as it was expected 
> using git versions 1.7.8 - 1.7.10 as far as I understand)
>
> Not sure if that's a bug but it got stuff behaving really weird in a specific 
> usecase on one of our environments. It would be highly appreciated to update 
> the docs at least.

If the documentation already says "equivalent" and does not say
"identical", I am not sure if there is anything to update.

In any case, I thought some people are already working to make the
result consistently use relative paths (or was it absolute?), so
this may soon become a non-issue.


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