Re: [BUG] git submodule update is not fail safe

Manlio Perillo [off-list ref] writes:

$ git submodule update --init
...
Submodule 'roms/vgabios' (git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git/) registered
for path 'roms/vgabios'
fatal: unable to connect to anongit.freedesktop.org:
anongit.freedesktop.org[0: 131.252.210.161]: errno=Connection timed out

Unable to fetch in submodule path 'pixman'

$ git submodule update --init
fatal: Needed a single revision
Unable to find current revision in submodule path 'pixman'

The problem is easy to solve: manually remove the pixman directory;
however IMHO git submodule update should not fail this way since it may
confuse the user.

Sounds like a reasonable observation.  Jens, Heiko, comments?