git 2.39.0 change from relative to absolute submodule paths

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Fuchs, Thorsten!

> After submodule update with git 2.39.0 some of our sub modules got their
> worktree settings in the .git/modules/<submodul>/config fil set as absolute
> paths. See the attached config files as example. It seems that if the path
> is changed from relative. Not all submodules are effected. It happens also
> sporadically and not and very frequently.
> It is possible to carry on working Cygwin git. However, we are using
> Tortoise git with libgit2 and git for windows in parallel. Due to the
> absolute Cygwin paths this is not working anymore.
> We have not yet seen such a behavior in git for windows. Also we can't
> reproduce it at this point in time. We consider it a bug but nor sure about it.

I've faced something like this in Git projects served from network path.
Unfortunately, I've lost access to my system via Samba and I unable to run any
tests until it is restored.


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, May 21, 2023 19:05:26

Sorry for my terrible english...