We forgot to prepare the submodule env, which is only a problem for nested submodules. See 2e5d6503bd (ls-files: fix recurse-submodules with nested submodules, 2017-04-13) for further explanation. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> --- submodule.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c index cd098cf12b..c7a7a33916 100644 --- a/submodule.c +++ b/submodule.c @@ -1476,6 +1476,7 @@ int submodule_move_head(const char *path, cp.no_stdin = 1; cp.dir = path; + prepare_submodule_repo_env(&cp.env_array); argv_array_pushl(&cp.args, "update-ref", "HEAD", new, NULL); if (run_command(&cp)) { -- 2.13.0.rc1.1.gbc33f0f778