I had the problem with version 2.7.4. The problem is fixed in self-compiled v2.13.2.533.ge0aaa1bed, v2.12.0, v2.11.0 and v2.9.3! Even the older version 2.1.4 does not have that problem. Thank you for the input! Robert ________________________________________ From: Siemer Robert CSNPE Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 14:09 To: Stefan Beller; Junio C Hamano Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bug: submodules of submodules use absolute gitdir in .git file (instead of relative) ________________________________________ From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 19:35 To: Junio C Hamano Cc: Siemer Robert CSNPE; git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bug: submodules of submodules use absolute gitdir in .git file (instead of relative) 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.