On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > Robert Siemer <robert.sie...@rohde-schwarz.com> writes: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> $ git submodule foreach cat .git >> >> ...shows that the gitdir registered in the .git file of submodules is >> relative. But if you run >> >> $ git submodule foreach --recursive cat .git >> >> ...shows that submodules of submodules (if you have any) have an absolute >> gitdir starting with a slash. >> >> 1) Can you confirm that behavior? > > Nobody can without knowing which version of Git you are using. I > suspect that we had discussed and addressed something related to > nested submodule's "gitdir" pointer in not-so-distant past.
Yeah there was a period in time where we had this bug. (Or is it a different bug?) See 90c0011619 (submodule: use absolute path for computing relative path connecting, 2016-12-08), which is included in 2.12.
