On Freitag, 7. September 2018 17:03:27 CEST Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > 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 couldn't reproduce after cloning with v1.6.6.3 (which creates ".git" > as a directory in the tree). Is it possible for you to bisect (or > perhaps share with us the broken example)? > I discovered it by using Debian testing, and it is shipping the 2.17rcs for some reason. The example is just an old checkout of qt5.git with submodules, it is rather large. I could try bisecting, but I am not sure I have the time anytime soon, I just wanted to report it to you first incase you knew of a change that suddenly assumed the new structure. 'Allan
