Re: bug: git submodule add fails when .git is a symlink

Stefan Beller wrote:

To elaborate on that: Starting in 2.7 parts of the submodule stuff
has been rewritten in C, in 2.8 even more and there is more in flight for
 > 2.8.

However your bug is also to be found in 2.6, which doesn't contain any
recent rewrites, so it is a rather long standing bug, I would presume.

Yes, I saw it with 2.7.0, but I think the user who reported it was on
2.6.

As a workaround for now:

    echo "gitdir: ../gitdir/.git" > .git

Not an option in our particular situation, unfortunately.

I wonder if the miscalculated ../../../somedir could cause git to access
files outside the git repos?

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