Don't count failed loads as loading; explain missing gitlink

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 20:09:59 +02:00
parent 633de5aab1
commit 69d0f9b704
3 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ func status(ctx context.Context, in info) (*submodule.Status, error) {
 	}
 	pin := parseGitlink(out)
 	if pin == "" {
-		return nil, errors.New("no gitlink in the superproject index")
+		return nil, errors.New("listed in .gitmodules, but has no gitlink in the superproject index (stale entry?)")
 	}
 	out, _, err = try(ctx, in.superDir, "ls-tree", "HEAD", "--", in.relPath)
 	if err != nil {