Re: Problem with submodules

I found a solution to this here:

	http://www.websideattractions.com/2008/10/21/no-color-for-git/

Turns out that the following line in my .profile was messing things up:

	GREP_OPTIONS="--color=always"; export GREP_OPTIONS

I changed --color=always to auto, and everything works fine now.

Cheers,
Drew


On 29 May 2009, at 12:44, Andrew Neil wrote:

I am having trouble with submodules on one of my machines. When I run
`git submodule init`, then `git submodule update`, it looks as though
everything is going fine, then it crashes out with an error:
"pathspec '665a3c' did not match any file known to git.".
(The full output is pasted below).

According to this article: http://book.git-scm.com/5_submodules.html
under the heading "Pitfalls with submodules", this error is expected
to occur if you don't publish changes to a submodule. This doesn't
seem to be the problem in my case. I have tried installing the same
git repository on 2 other machines, and the submodule init/update
commands worked fine on both of them. So it looks as though there is
something on one of my machines that is interfering with this process.

I discovered that if I run the `git submodule update` command as sudo,
the problem goes away. However, this has the side-effect that the
submodule directories are created with root as the owner.

Can anyone help with this problem?

Much appreciated,
Drew


Here is the full output of the init/update commands, with my faulty
machine:

$ git submodule init
Submodule 'vendor/plugins/dataset' (git://github.com/jgarber/ 
dataset.git) registered for path 'vendor/plugins/dataset'
Submodule 'vendor/plugins/simply_versioned' (git://github.com/mmower/ 
simply_versioned.git) registered for path 'vendor/plugins/ 
simply_versioned'
$ git submodule update
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/drew/web/extensions/ 
chronicle/vendor/plugins/dataset/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 899, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (692/692), done.
remote: Total 899 (delta 539), reused 250 (delta 158)
Receiving objects: 100% (899/899), 141.93 KiB | 42 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (539/539), done.
error: pathspec '665a3c03f6a65a586839b8de437c60f98177dd78' did not  
match any file(s) known to git.
Unable to checkout '665a3c03f6a65a586839b8de437c60f98177dd78' in  
submodule path 'vendor/plugins/dataset'