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-rw-r--r--submodule.c1
-rwxr-xr-xt/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh35
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 4532b11d66..2801fbbe14 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -1160,4 +1160,5 @@ void prepare_submodule_repo_env(struct argv_array *out)
if (strcmp(*var, CONFIG_DATA_ENVIRONMENT))
argv_array_push(out, *var);
}
+ argv_array_push(out, "GIT_DIR=.git");
}
diff --git a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
index 954d0e43f5..f3b0a8d30a 100755
--- a/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
+++ b/t/t5526-fetch-submodules.sh
@@ -485,4 +485,39 @@ test_expect_success 'fetching submodules respects parallel settings' '
)
'
+test_expect_success 'fetching submodule into a broken repository' '
+ # Prepare src and src/sub nested in it
+ git init src &&
+ (
+ cd src &&
+ git init sub &&
+ git -C sub commit --allow-empty -m "initial in sub" &&
+ git submodule add -- ./sub sub &&
+ git commit -m "initial in top"
+ ) &&
+
+ # Clone the old-fashoned way
+ git clone src dst &&
+ git -C dst clone ../src/sub sub &&
+
+ # Make sure that old-fashoned layout is still supported
+ git -C dst status &&
+
+ # "diff" would find no change
+ git -C dst diff --exit-code &&
+
+ # Recursive-fetch works fine
+ git -C dst fetch --recurse-submodules &&
+
+ # Break the receiving submodule
+ rm -f dst/sub/.git/HEAD &&
+
+ # NOTE: without the fix the following tests will recurse forever!
+ # They should terminate with an error.
+
+ test_must_fail git -C dst status &&
+ test_must_fail git -C dst diff &&
+ test_must_fail git -C dst fetch --recurse-submodules
+'
+
test_done