.git of Submodule not followed

[Erhannis]

So, I have a repo with some submodules. I wanted to use git-up in one of the submodules, but rather than a .git folder, it had a .git FILE containing a relative path to the actual .git folder (like "../../.git/modules/SomeFolder/SubmoduleName"). Git itself seems to be ok with it, but git-up complains "Not a directory". Now, if I renamed the .git file and instead made a symbolic link to the relevant git folder, git-up worked fine. It SEEMS like maybe this shouldn't be too hard to fix, just to follow the link in the .git file if it isn't a directory.

[aanand]

mojombo/grit#145 :(

Maybe it's time to vendor Grit...

[gausie]

The grit devs recommend https://github.com/libgit2/rugged

[aanand]

Oh, interesting! If someone wants to take a crack at converting git-up to use rugged, that'd be incredible - I'm afraid I'm far too busy right now ;_;

[galenandrew]

+1 for this issue.

Looks like Grit is no longer maintained so a migration to libgit2/rugged is eventually necessary.

[gausie]

Just ran into this again. Maybe I'll give it a go.

[foozmeat]

+1

[captainju]

👍 it would be awesome

[cburgas]

+1

[d4rkd0s]

+1 👍

[captainju]

I've switched to https://github.com/msiemens/PyGitUp