submodule init: warn about falling back to a local path

[thirdparty/git.git] / builtin / submodule--helper.c

diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 899dc334e323a53f3e8a2981a1f8140f55f136a9..15a5430c0028f45ff6265a821ff85aa9d8445230 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -356,12 +356,10 @@ static void init_submodule(const char *path, const char *prefix, int quiet)
                        strbuf_addf(&remotesb, "remote.%s.url", remote);
                        free(remote);
 
-                       if (git_config_get_string(remotesb.buf, &remoteurl))
-                               /*
-                                * The repository is its own
-                                * authoritative upstream
-                                */
+                       if (git_config_get_string(remotesb.buf, &remoteurl)) {
+                               warning(_("could not lookup configuration '%s'. Assuming this repository is its own authoritative upstream."), remotesb.buf);
                                remoteurl = xgetcwd();
+                       }
                        relurl = relative_url(remoteurl, url, NULL);
                        strbuf_release(&remotesb);
                        free(remoteurl);