On 06/18, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 1:23 PM Heiko Voigt <hvo...@hvoigt.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just discovered that when you have a slash at the end of a nested > > repository, the files contained in the repository get added instead of > > the gitlink. > > > > I found this when I was adding a submodule and wanted to commit a small > > change before that. You get the slash by using tab autocompletion. > > > > Here is a recipe to reproduce: > > > > mkdir test > > cd test; git init > > touch a; git add a; git commit -m a > > mkdir ../test.git; (cd ../test.git; git init --bare) > > git remote add origin ../test.git > > git push origin master > > git submodule add ../test.git submodule > > git reset > > git add submodule/ > > > > Now instead of just submodule gitlink there is an entry for submodule/a > > in the index. > > > > I just thought I put this out there. Will have a look if I find the time > > to cook up a proper testcase and investigate. > > This sounds like the submodule specific code in pathspec.c, which has > been replaced with something else in bw/pathspec-sans-the-index. If > you have time, try a version without those changes (e.g. v2.13 or > before) to see if it's a possible culprit.
I just tested this with v2.13 and saw the same issue. I don't actually think this ever worked in the way you want it to Heiko. Maybe git add needs to be taught to be more intelligent when trying to add a submodule which doesn't exist in the index. -- Brandon Williams
