submodules without commits

[ghost]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "GitPython.python.examples/_Examples/git submodule/test.py", line 7, in
print repo.submodules
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/repo/base.py", line 238, in submodules
return Submodule.list_items(self)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/util.py", line 659, in list_items
out_list.extend(cls.iter_items(repo, _args, *_kwargs))
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/objects/submodule/base.py", line 883, in iter_items
pc = repo.commit(parent_commit) # parent commit instance
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/repo/base.py", line 378, in commit
return self.rev_parse(str(rev)+"^0")
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/repo/fun.py", line 151, in rev_parse
obj = name_to_object(repo, rev[:start])
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/GitPython-0.3.2.RC1-py2.7.egg/git/repo/fun.py", line 86, in name_to_object
raise BadObject(name)
gitdb.exc.BadObject: BadObject: 48454144
[Finished in 6.8s with exit code 1]

[Byron]

Just for completeness: This would now throw BadName, see #105 for more information.
Nonetheless, I am looking into this right now to see what the desired behaviour should be.

[Byron]

Please have a look at the commit message above for a summary on why this is considered fixed. In short, I believe that adding empty submodules is wrong in the first place, and doesn't seem to be possible either with the git-commandline, nor with git-python.

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