From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:25:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Git Submodule Problem - Bug?
Message-ID: <201111291125.41943.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20111129101546.GB2829@kolya>

Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> > [removing a submodule and adding another under the same name
> > confuses git]
> 
> This is something I did not thought about when writing that patch. The
> reason that this fails is that the part when the first submodule is
> removed is no longer complete (as intended). Before this patch
>      git config --remove-section submodule.sub &&
>      git rm .gitmodules &&
>      rm -rf sub &&
> Did remove all the data associated with the submodule. That's no longer
> the case.

So maybe the right questions to ask would be: what's the *official*
way of removing a submodule completely?  Do we support overwriting
submodules in the way Manuel wanted to?  Why not? :-)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch