Re: Git fetch bug in git 2.21+ "Could not access submodule '%s'"

"Paolo Pettinato (ppettina)" [off-list ref] writes:

Thanks for the reply!

On 14/08/2019 17:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

  Why is the user mucking with
that directory in the first place, and isn't the flagging of the
situation as an error, done with 26f80ccf ("submodule: migrate
get_next_submodule to use repository structs", 2018-11-28), a
bugfix?  If not, why not?

Not sure if you're implying here that this is not a bug; I'd say that:

Yeah, sorry for a confused comment.

It does feel strange that the error behaviour depends on what is in
the working tree for a "fetch", which is between two $GIT_DIR and
does not involve the working tree on the receiving side (that brings
us back to my earlier comment in the same message).