Re: Files that want to delete themselves

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 24, 2008, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20080924180436.GJ10544@machine.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <19654453.post@talk.nabble.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:55:02AM -0700, Andrew Vit wrote:

> I have a Rails project that I'm managing with git and I have a strange
> problem with one of the plugin directories. Every time I do `git add .` it
> tries to delete itself... Any idea what might be happening?

  so how does that look like in git diff? My guess is you have a .git/
subdirectory there and thus Git assumes that it is a submodule? I don't
think we actually have a way to specify that some directory should NOT
be considered a submodule even if it is a git checkout... So you will
probably either have to actually convert this to a submodule in your
project (probably the sanest thing to do), move the .git subdirectory
away or submit a patch that will add say a .gitattributes flag not to
consider this subdirectory to be a submodule (which might make some
sense).

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
People who take cold baths never have rheumatism,
but they have cold baths.