Hello all,Recently we encountered a git fetch issue similar to the one I have reported earlier, <https://marc.info/?l=git&m=158979416620251&w=2>, which AFAICT has not yet been fixed.
In this case we had checked out a submodule, but not the submodule(s) below it.
The full submodule chain was like this: top->middle->bottom The actual checkout was top->middleBecause only "middle" was needed for the cron job script used to push updates to "top" and "middle", "bottom" was never checked out (and it should not be necessary to do so, either).
When the pointer to "bottom" was recently updated in "middle", the cron job failed, because Git "could not access submodule bottom".
As I said in my earlier report, this kind of issues should, at most, only trigger a warning, not a fatal error.
The Git version on the system is Git v2.25.1 (Ubuntu 20.4) This problem is not occuring in Git v2.17 on Windows. Attached is a zipfile with a script that reproduces the problem. -- Sincerely, Yngve N. Pettersen Vivaldi Technologies AS
<<attachment: generate_test.zip>>
