On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Andreas Urke <aru...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for looking into this. > > I was able to reproduce it from scratch, but I followed my earlier > workflow where I first created the subrepos, and then later renamed > it. At the time I was not able to find any command to rename without > changing the path (and I was not able find one now either, is there > any?), so I edited name and path in .gitmodules and ran git submodule > sync. Am I asking for trouble doing it that way?
"rename without changing the path" sounds like a red flag to me, as the submodule name was introduced specifically to be a constant as the path may change, whereas the name ought to never change. > > Let me know if you need the exact steps I followed. Well yes, ideally as a shell script (or even embedded into our test suite).
