Subject: bug#56398: (guix git) fails to check out repos with nested submodules

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 12:17:59 +0200

Hi,

On +2022-07-07 23:45:35 -0300, André Batista wrote:
> qui 07 jul 2022 às 18:35:42 (1657229742), [email-masked] enviou:
> > I think this may be actually a bug upstream. (...)
> 
> I mean, we could change the submodule-update fetch-options to allow
> for repository initialization when it's absent, but does it make
> sense considering we would just remove it when building the package
> and use package inputs' version instead?
>

Have you seen this[1] re nested git tricks? 

[1]:    <https://lwn.net/Articles/848935/>

i.e., are you sure not to be used by some such attack?
(article was over a year ago, so there must be more on
related git problems by now?)

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Regards,
Bengt Richter