Fwd: Git Submodule Misbehaviour With ./

[Andrei Thorp <garoth@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Git (I have version 1.6.1.3) seems to misbehave when it comes to git
submodule add and ./. Here is an example.

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$ cd Configs
$ git submodule add git@git.mercenariesguild.net:obvious.git ./awesome/obvious
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/garoth/Configs/awesome/obvious/.git/
stdin: is not a tty
remote: Counting objects: 32, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29/29), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (32/32), 5.10 KiB, done.
remote: Total 32 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0)
Resolving deltas: 100% (8/8), done.
$ git submodule init
No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'awesome/obvious'
$ git commit -m "Added obvious submodule"
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ git clone ~/Configs
$ git submodule init
No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'awesome/obvious'
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Note how when I did git submodule add, I used ./awesome/obvious. The behaviour
of "No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path 'awesome/obvious'" only
occurs when you use ./. If I were to use:

$ git submodule add git@git.mercenariesguild.net:obvious.git awesome/obvious

instead, then git handles everything just fine. Thanks to dsal in #git
for helping me
figure this out. Perhaps there is an error with regards to how the
.gitmodules file
is parsed or encoded. I'm not really a git developer, but I wanted to
have this issue
documented at least somewhere.

Thanks,

-Andrei Thorp