From git's point of view submodules are a weird third thing between file and directory. Avoid trying to apply file handling on a directory. Change-Id: Ibbc9c28e1657d96413c5fb08705d30e25171254d Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi-clan.de> Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/8372 Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com> Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)