On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Robert Siemer <Robert.Siemer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> $ git submodule foreach cat .git >> >> ...shows that the gitdir registered in the .git file of submodules is relative. But if you run >> >> $ git submodule foreach --recursive cat .git >> >> ...shows that submodules of submodules (if you have any) have an absolute gitdir starting with a slash. >> >> 1) Can you confirm that behavior? > > Nobody can without knowing which version of Git you are using. I > suspect that we had discussed and addressed something related to > nested submodule's "gitdir" pointer in not-so-distant past. Yeah there was a period in time where we had this bug. (Or is it a different bug?) See 90c0011619 (submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting, 2016-12-08), which is included in 2.12.
