Hi, clone or have a repository with submodules. Now issue "git init --separate-git-dir ../test" which moves the content of the .git direcotry to the ../test directory and replaces the .git directory with a .git file "link". However, for all submodules the .git-file is not updated and still points to the .git directory of the parent repository which now is a file. This issue is present for me in Git 2.12.0. -- Best regards, Sven Strickroth PGP key id F5A9D4C4 @ any key-server