With a repo structured as follows main-files |- submod |- subsubmodule git mv submod newlocation does not do what it is supposed to do. It actually breaks the git repository. It can be fixed easily. A complete description of the bug, including a workaround, can be found on http://stackoverflow.com/q/32782382/2274140 -- Bart Bogaerts -- 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