Failure in submodule directory

[smith]

I have a repo which contains a submodule, and there are other submodules in that one. Running git up in the top level works fine, but when I go to the next one I get:

smith@xnwzaizaqh:~/Projects/chef-repo/cookbooks:master$ git up
/Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:116:in `chdir': Not a directory - /Users/smith/Projects/chef-repo/cookbooks/.git (Errno::ENOTDIR)
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/git-ruby.rb:116:in `refs'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/ref.rb:13:in `find_all'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/grit-2.5.0/lib/grit/repo.rb:213:in `heads'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/git-up-0.5.5/lib/git-up.rb:84:in `remote_map'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/git-up-0.5.5/lib/git-up.rb:80:in `remotes'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/git-up-0.5.5/lib/git-up.rb:8:in `run'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/gems/git-up-0.5.5/bin/git-up:5:in `<top (required)>'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/git-up:19:in `load'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/git-up:19:in `<main>'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `eval'
  from /Users/smith/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/bin/ruby_noexec_wrapper:14:in `<main>'

apparently because the .git here is not a directory, but a file with the contents:

gitdir: ../.git/modules/cookbooks

If possible, I would like git-up to either fetch/rebase all of the submodules recursively or work like normal when run within a submodule. The repo in question (chef-repo) is a private repo, and the one I'm trying to run git-up from is https://github.com/cramerdev/cookbooks

Thanks.

[aanand]

Yikes. Didn't know submodules could do weird things with .git.

To be honest, if Grit doesn't know how to handle that then I'm not sure where to begin. You might be best off using a plain git pull --rebase in your submodule directories.

[smith]

Thanks for looking. That's what I've been doing, so there's a workaround. I forgot to mention this only happens on one of my machines and it works fine on the other, both having the same version of git-up, but not sure about ruby or grit or other things' versions. If it continues to be a problem I'll open an issue on Grit or figure something out.