Bug#707083: git-submodule issues with detached work trees

2013-05-07 Thread William Dauchy
Hi Jonathan, On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thanks for writing. It does seem low-risk. Can you say a little more > about your workflow? Do you work on a wheezy system or squeeze + > squeeze-backports? Would you be willing to use a package from > wheezy-backports if

Bug#707083: git-submodule issues with detached work trees

2013-05-07 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# missing feature, lousy error message severity 707083 normal retitle 707083 "git submodule add" errors out with "working tree already exists" if GIT_WORK_TREE is set # v1.7.12-rc1~3^2~1 (git-submodule: work with GIT_DIR/GIT_WORK_TREE, # 2012-07-22) tags 707083 + upstream patch fixed-upstream fixe

Bug#707083: git-submodule issues with detached work trees

2013-05-07 Thread William Dauchy
Package: git Version: 1:1.7.10.4-1+wheezy1 Severity: important Tags: patch As described in [1], git-submodule is not correctly working with detached work trees. git-submodule fails to add submodules, as it is confused by GIT_DIR and GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when it tries to work in th