Submodules checked out with older versions of git not longer works in the latest 2.19 releases. A "git submodule update --recursive" command wil fail for each submodule with a line saying "fatal: could not open '<submodule>/.git' for writing> Is a directory. I checked the release notes so far, and they do not say the old submodules from git 2.16- were no longer supported, so I assume it is a bug? 'Allan