Fix export_marks() error handling.

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 0a27232b90456b5471ee64d5dcf9965ad73f28af..8e234a4028d22e11baedba11f871d33f56945716 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2007 Lars Hjemli
 
 USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached] \
-[add <repo> [-b branch] <path>]|[status|init|update [-i|--init] [-N|--no-fetch]|summary [-n|--summary-limit <n>] [<commit>]] \
+[add [-b branch] <repo> <path>]|[status|init|update [-i|--init] [-N|--no-fetch]|summary [-n|--summary-limit <n>] [<commit>]] \
 [--] [<path>...]|[foreach <command>]|[sync [--] [<path>...]]"
 OPTIONS_SPEC=
 . git-sh-setup
@@ -204,8 +204,15 @@ cmd_add()
        else
 
                module_clone "$path" "$realrepo" || exit
-               (unset GIT_DIR; cd "$path" && git checkout -f -q ${branch:+-b "$branch" "origin/$branch"}) ||
-               die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
+               (
+                       unset GIT_DIR
+                       cd "$path" &&
+                       # ash fails to wordsplit ${branch:+-b "$branch"...}
+                       case "$branch" in
+                       '') git checkout -f -q ;;
+                       ?*) git checkout -f -q -b "$branch" "origin/$branch" ;;
+                       esac
+               ) || die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
        fi
 
        git add "$path" ||