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Re: Spurious warning when moving a file in presence of submodules

From
Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date
Oct 11, 2013, 17:53 UTC
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<52583B00.8040700@web.de>
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Hi Matthieu,
Am 11.10.2013 16:29, schrieb Matthieu Moy:
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> I'm getting this warning:
> 
>   warning: Could not find section in .gitmodules where path=XXX
> 
> whenever I use "git mv" to move a file in a repository containing a
> submodule. The file is outside the submodule and is completely
> unrelated, so I do not understand the intent of the warning.
> 
> My understanding (without looking at the code in detail) is that Git
> tries to be clever about submodule renames, hence checks whether the
> source file is a submodule. But then if the lookup fails, it should just
> silently move on to "normal file move" mode I guess...

Right. Thanks for reporting, I can reproduce that here and am currently looking into that.

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  1. Matthieu MoyOct 11, 2013
  2. Jens LehmannOct 11, 2013
  3. mv: Fix spurious warning when moving a file in presence of submodulesJens Lehmann, Oct 13, 2013
  4. Matthieu MoyOct 13, 2013
  5. Jens LehmannOct 13, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederOct 14, 2013
  7. Matthieu MoyOct 14, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederOct 17, 2013

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