From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:39:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [regression?] "git status -a" reports modified for empty submodule directory
Message-ID: <4818143C.6050206@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v4p9k7326.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> "Ping Yin" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> In the super project super with empty submodule directory sub
>> $ git diff
>> diff --git a/sub b/sub
>> deleted file mode 160000
>> index f2c0d45..0000000
>> --- a/sub
>> +++ /dev/null
>> @@ -1 +0,0 @@
>> -Subproject commit f2c0d4509a3178c...
> 
> The repository used to have a subproject and now it doesn't.  Why
> shouldn't it report the removal?

Because you are not required to have a subproject checked out?

-- Hannes