Re: Bug Report: "git submodule deinit" fails right after a clone

From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date: Oct 5, 2016, 13:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20161005133650.GB30930@book.hvoigt.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPOqYV+xsrLk7y1hJYHZFY8OfkxVRwPcZBdqhdgrhThqdZysQA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

please do not top-post the conversation will otherwise get hard to follow. Thank you.

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 05:46:45PM +0200, Thomas Bétous wrote:

> Thank you for your answer and sorry for the delay (I was on vacation...).
> 
> I am using git 2.9.0.windows.1 (run on Windows 7 via git bash).

My initial reaction is that this might be a problem with line endings. Did you check whether you get any diff when you do a 'git diff' after the clone?

Maybe the variable 'core.autocrlf' is set to 'input' ? Have a look at 'git help config'

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> I tested it on this repo:
> https://github.com/githubtraining/example-dependency.git
> The same problem occurs.
> Here a small script to reproduce the error on my PC:
> #!/bin/bash
> git clone https://github.com/githubtraining/example-dependency.git
> cd example-dependency
> git submodule deinit js
> 
> It ends with this error:
> fatal: Please stage your changes to .gitmodules or stash them to proceed
> Submodule work tree 'js' contains local modifications; use '-f' to discard them

Here I get

$ git submodule deinit js Cleared directory 'js'

So all seems fine.

> Is the script working on your PC?

Yes. I am on Mac OS X though.

Cheers Heiko