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When developing another patch series I had a temporary state in which git-clone would segfault, when the call was prepared in prepare_to_clone_next_submodule. This lead to the call failing, i.e. in `update_clone_task_finished` the task was scheduled to be tried again. The second call to prepare_to_clone_next_submodule would return 0, as the segfaulted clone did create the .git file already, such that was not considered to need to be cloned again. I was seeing the "BUG: ce was a submodule before?\n" message, which was the correct behavior at the time as my local code was buggy. When trying to debug this failure, I tried to use printing messages into the strbuf that is passed around, but these messages were never printed as the die(..) doesn't flush the `err` strbuf. When implementing the die() in 665b35ecc (2016-06-09, "submodule--helper: initial clone learns retry logic"), I considered this condition to be a severe condition, which should lead to an immediate abort as we do not trust ourselves any more. However the queued messages in `err` are valuable so let's not toss them out by immediately dying, but a graceful return. Another thing to note: The error message itself was misleading. A return value of 0 doesn't indicate the passed in `ce` is not a submodule any more, but just that we do not consider cloning it any more. Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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