This is the logical continuum of fb43e31f2b4 (submodule: try harder to fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1, 2016-02-23) and fixes it as some assumptions were not correct.
> If $sha1 was not part of the default fetch ... fail ourselves here assumes that the fetch_in_submodule only fails when the serverside does not support fetching by sha1. There are other failures, why such a fetch may fail, such as fatal: Couldn't find remote ref HEAD which can happen if the remote side doesn't advertise HEAD. Not advertising HEAD is allowed by the protocol spec and would happen, if HEAD points at a ref, that this user cannot see (due to ACLs for example). So do try even harder for a submodule by ignoring the exit code of the first fetch and rather relying on the following is_tip_reachable to see if we try fetching again. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbel...@google.com> --- git-submodule.sh | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh index 24914963ca2..13b378a6c8f 100755 --- a/git-submodule.sh +++ b/git-submodule.sh @@ -614,7 +614,6 @@ cmd_update() # is not reachable from a ref. is_tip_reachable "$sm_path" "$sha1" || fetch_in_submodule "$sm_path" $depth || - die "$(eval_gettext "Unable to fetch in submodule path '\$displaypath'")" # Now we tried the usual fetch, but $sha1 may # not be reachable from any of the refs -- 2.17.0.582.gccdcbd54c44.dirty