From: Martin Waitz Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 22:55:22 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Third round of support for cloning submodules Message-ID: <20070520225521.GP5412@admingilde.org> In-Reply-To: <20070520222410.GF25462@steel.home> hoi :) On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:24:10AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: > But it is not a merge. It is a checkout. Being another operation it > may even be disallow merges of subprojects. Just plainly tell user > that this checkout is not possible because there are changes in > subprojects and in the pointer to this subproject in the upper level > superproject, and that the user should think about committing in > subproject first. If the user did commit and then you do a supermodule checkout -m you will get a merge. -- Martin Waitz