I'm trying to get TravisCI to automatically deploy my Hakyll static site, according to this guide.
Here's how my repo is set up. I have my source branch, which contains my hakyll and markdown files. It builds the html into the _site
directory, which is set up as a submodule, linked to my master
branch.
I build the site without problem, then cd
into the _site directory. However, when I try to git add ./*
the newly generated HTML files, I get the following error:
fatal: Pathspec './about.html' is in submodule '_site'
When I try git add --all
, I get this error:
git: pathspec.c:317: prefix_pathspec: Assertion `item->nowildcard_len <= item->len && item->prefix <= item->len' failed.
/home/travis/build.sh: line 245: 1566 Aborted git add --all
What is causing this, and how can I avoid this?
You can view the repository here.
Removing the directory from git and adding it again worked for me:
git rm --cached directory
git add directory
This works if you purposefully removed the .git
directory because you wanted to add directory
to your main git project. In my specific case, I had git cloned an extension and ran git add .
without thinking too much. Git decided to create a submodule, which I didn't like. So I removed directory/.git
and ran into Git: fatal: Pathspec is in submodule
. I couldn't find out how to remove the submodule stuff. Fixed with the two lines above.
It seems the git add
context is the parent repo ("parent" means the one including the submodule), which triggers the warning.
Try and change its context with:
cd _site
git --git-dir=.git --work-tree=. add .
git --git-dir=.git --work-tree=. commit -m "new files"
Don't forget that, if this works, you would still have to go back to the parent repo, and git add _site
, since the subrepo would have changes.
And you would have to push both.
Update January 2017 (2+ years later)
With Git 2.12, you won't see that prefix_pathspec: Assertion
anymore.
See commit 2d81c48 (09 Jan 2017) by Stefan Beller (stefanbeller
).
Helped-by: Jeff King (peff
), and Junio C Hamano (gitster
).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster
-- in commit 00880a1, 18 Jan 2017)
pathspec
: give better message for submodule relatedpathspec
errorRunning "
git add a/b
" when "a
" is a submodule correctly errored out, but without a meaningful error message.
It seems my problem is that I was accidentally deleting the .git
folder of the submodule.
It sounds like you're operating on non-initialized submodules (they're basically missing .git
directories), therefore you should initialize them first and update:
git submodule init
git submodule update
Otherwise if you don't need this submodule anymore, remove it by:
git submodule deinit _site
or:
git rm -f --cached _site
and add it again:
git add _site
Check your current outstanding submodules by: git submodule status
.
See also: Why is git erroring with 'Assertion failed' on git add .?
100% fix for this problem, even if you have more than one submodule directory inside the project:
> git submodule foreach --recursive deinit -f --all -- <relative path>
> git add --all -f
来源:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24472596/git-fatal-pathspec-is-in-submodule