Re: Old submodules broken in 2.19rc1 and 2.19rc2

Stefan Beller wrote:

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 2:53 AM Allan Sandfeld Jensen [off-list ref] wrote:

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                      A "git submodule update --recursive" command wil fail
for each submodule with a line saying "fatal: could not open
'<submodule>/.git' for writing> Is a directory.

[...]

I have the suspicion that e98317508c0 (submodule:
ensure core.worktree is set after update, 2018-06-18)
might be the offender.

Oh!  That seems likely.

Allan, output from "strace -f git submodule update --init" would also
be interesting.

Jonathan