submodules cause: Failed to chdir(../../../

[AD7six]

When using tig with submodules created with the current version of git the following behavior is observed:

[10:55][/tmp]$ mkdir example
[10:55][/tmp]$ cd example/
[10:55][/tmp/example]$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/example/.git/
[10:56][/tmp/example]$ touch README.md
[10:56][/tmp/example]$ git add README.md
[10:56][/tmp/example]$ git commit -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) ceb3fb6] initial commit
0 files changed
create mode 100644 README.md
[10:56][/tmp/example(master)]$ git submodule add git://github.com/AD7six/mi.git mi
Cloning into 'mi'...
remote: Counting objects: 1415, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (542/542), done.
remote: Total 1415 (delta 840), reused 1275 (delta 764)
Receiving objects: 100% (1415/1415), 416.41 KiB | 645 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (840/840), done.
[10:56][/tmp/example(master)]$ cd mi/ 
[10:56][/tmp/example/mi(master)]$ tig
tig: Failed to chdir(../../../mi): No such file or directory
[10:57][/tmp/example/mi(master)]$ more mi/.git
gitdir: ../.git/modules/mi
[10:57][/tmp/example/mi(master)]$ tig --version
tig version 1.0
[10:57][/tmp/example/mi(master)]$ git --version
git version 1.7.10

The current version of git creates a config file in the submodule's .git location - whereas in the past it would be a complete .git folder (and tig would happily use that).

[axelson]

Any idea when this will make it into a release? Since I use submodules extensively it is disrupting my workflow. I'll probably just run off of master for now though.

[richo]

if you're on osx theres a HEAD build for tig in my homebrew repo, it
doesn't install docs though which I why I haven't submitted upstream.
On May 21, 2012 4:47 AM, "Jason Axelson" <
reply@reply.github.com>
wrote:

Any idea when this will make it into a release? Since I use submodules
extensively it is disrupting my workflow. I'll probably just run off of
master for now though.

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[richo]

https://github.com/richo/homebrew/blob/brews/head/tig/Library/Formula/tig.rb

[jonas]

I plan to make a maintenance release soon. Anyway, the patch has been integrated into master, so will close.

[MasseGuillaume]

Hey Jonas. I have the same issue

$ tig --version
tig version 1.0

I have a subdirectory submodule
created with git submodule add git@...git some/dir

[vivien]

@MasseGuillaume can you try with the latest version (tig 1.2) or master?

[jonas]

Hi @MasseGuillaume, submodules are known to be supported in version 1.1 and master - and broken in 1.0 and 1.2 :( ... I plan to release a 1.2.1 sometime this week.