Re: Branch switching with submodules where the submodule replaces a folder aborts unexpectedly
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> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> hat am 9. Oktober 2017 um 23:59 geschrieben:
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> On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Braun
> <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently in the progress of pulling some subprojects in a git repository of mine into their
> > own repositories and adding these subprojects back as submodules.
> >
> > While doing this I enountered a potential bug as checkout complains on branch switching that a
> > file already exists.
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> (And I presume you know about --recurse-submodules as a flag for git-checkout)
No I did not know about it. I tend to not know options which don't complete in my shell (patch follows for that).
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> This is consistent with our tests, unfortunately.
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> git/t$ ./t2013-checkout-submodule.sh
> ...
> not ok 15 - git checkout --recurse-submodules: replace submodule with
> a directory # TODO known breakage
> ...
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> > If I'm misusing git here I'm glad for any advice.
>
> You are not.
> Apart from this bug report, would you think that such filtering of
> trees into submodules (and back again) might be an interesting feature
> of Git or are these cases rare and special?
For me not particularly. In my case it is a one time thing going from an embedded project folder to a submodule.
Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>