"Paolo Pettinato (ppettina)" <ppettina@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> On 14/08/2019 17:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Why is the user mucking with
>> that directory in the first place, and isn't the flagging of the
>> situation as an error, done with 26f80ccf ("submodule: migrate
>> get_next_submodule to use repository structs", 2018-11-28), a
>> bugfix? If not, why not?
>
> Not sure if you're implying here that this is not a bug; I'd say that:
Yeah, sorry for a confused comment.
It does feel strange that the error behaviour depends on what is in
the working tree for a "fetch", which is between two $GIT_DIR and
does not involve the working tree on the receiving side (that brings
us back to my earlier comment in the same message).
