On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 07:17:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > > A more pertinent question may be which version of Git did the above > > ever work, I guess. We fairly liberally chdir around and I do not > > think we deliberately avoid assuming that "cd .git && cd .." might > > not come back to the original directory, for example, so I wouldn't > > be surprised if it never worked. > > IIRC git used symlinks for .git in submodules before version 1.7.8, so I > guess that older versions supported that pretty well. > > This one case is the only time I've seen a symlink for .git present a > problem so far.
Fortunately you provided a simple reproduction case, so it is easy to bisect. It did work in v1.7.8, and broke in d75219b (submodules: always use a relative path from gitdir to work tree, 2012-03-04). Not surprising, I guess. It presumably worked before only because we were using absolute paths. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
