After trying a git subtree split -P foo/ -b "foo-branch" command in my (pretty large) repository I get an error containing the following message:

/usr/lib/git-core/git-subtree: 647: Maximum function recursion depth (1000) reached

The command works fine for my coworkers, which makes me think there is a problem with the configuration of my machine. The version of git I'm using is 2.30.2 on Ubuntu 21.04. From my research I've found that this function recursion depth is hardcoded in the git source code, but most of the information is targeted at unrelated Python recursion functions (from what I know, git is written in C).

Is there a way to fix this? Can the git function recursion depth be in any way overridden?

CodePudding user response：

It looks that the dash shell of Ubuntu 21.04 was the troublemaker.

After reconfiguring with sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash and then selecting "No" the problem was fixed.