Hi, I have the current 'master' branch of git installed and get the following error when fetching a submodule that is not checked out. I've bisected this error down to commit 1b7ac4e6d4 (submodules: fix of regression on fetching of non-init subsub-repo, 2020-11-12) $ git version git version 2.29.2.435.g72ffeb997e $ git config --get submodule.recurse true $ git submodule status -855827c583bc30645ba427885caa40c5b81764d2 sha1collisiondetection $ git fetch Fetching submodule sha1collisiondetection Fetching submodule sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection Fetching submodule sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection Fetching submodule sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection/sha1collisiondetection ... $ git submodule update --checkout Submodule path 'sha1collisiondetection': checked out '855827c583bc30645ba427885caa40c5b81764d2' $ git fetch Fetching submodule sha1collisiondetection $ Ralf