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44 lines
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### Please describe the problem.
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The way git-annex deals with submodules (replacing the .git file in the submodule, with a link to the corresponding gitdir of the submodule) seems to confuse Git when creating another submodule in an annex-init'ed submodule.
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### What steps will reproduce the problem?
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% mkdir some ; cd some; git init
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Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/some/.git/
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% git submodule add /src/somegitrepo sub_lvl1
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Cloning into 'sub_lvl1'...
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done.
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% cd sub_lvl1
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% git annex init
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init (merging origin/git-annex into git-annex...)
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(recording state in git...)
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ok
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(recording state in git...)
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% git submodule add /src/somegitrepo sub_lvl2
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Cloning into 'sub_lvl2'...
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done.
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fatal: Could not chdir to '../../../sub_lvl2': No such file or directory
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Unable to checkout submodule 'sub_lvl2'
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### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system?
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% apt-cache policy git-annex-standalone
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git-annex-standalone:
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Installed: 6.20160213+gitg9597a21-1~ndall+1
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Debian stretch, git-annex from NeuroDebian.
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### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
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Yes, lots! Using it for some of its original use cases for more than five years now -- I was actually surprised to learn, just now, that the oldest commit in my music repository is exactly 5 years and 6 days old. Thanks for longevity and reliability!
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More recently I aim exploring the use of git annex for managing datasets and their dependencies, i.e. going from raw to some processed state over multiple levels, where each level is a useful starting point for some analysis, and each previous level is a dependency (input) to the next. With just one level above "raw" this has massively improved collaboration workflows in student/teacher settings for me. Deeper nesting levels would allow for even more interesting applications, but see above ;-) I think Git seems needlessly confused, but I don't fully grasp what is happening yet. I'd appreciate any insight you may have. Although it is Git that shows the undesired behavior, it seems it is git-annex that ultimately confused it. Hence I came here first.
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BTW: What a nice idea to ask for something like this in a bug report.
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[[!meta author=mih]]
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> I've verified this is fixed on git's side. With git 2.23.0, my simple
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> reproduction script that uses only git does not fail as it used to.
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> And, yoh previously followed up that it was fixed in actual git-annex
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> use.
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> So, [[done]] --[[Joey]]
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