Re: cherry-picking fails after making a directory a submodule

> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Per Cederqvist <cederp@opera.com> wrote:
>> I have a situation where I have switched a directory from being a
>> subdirectory to being a submodule.  I then try to cherry-pick a commit
>> from a taskbranch that was made before the switch to the master
>> branch.  The commit touches a file outside the subdirectory/submodule.
>> Yet "git cherry-pick" fails with this error message:
>>
>>> error: could not apply 78c403e... Add a project feature
>>> hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
>>> hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'
>>> hint: and commit the result with 'git commit'
>>
>> I can resolve the situation by running "git add libfoo && git
>> cherry-pick --continue".  The generated commit contains no changes to
>> "libfoo".
>>
>> I don't understand why I need to manually add libfoo, as the commit
>> I'm cherry-picking doesn't touch anything in libfoo.
>>
>> The script below can reproduce the issue.  Tested with git 2.15.1,
>> 2.14.0 and 2.8.0, all with the same result.
>>
>> Is this a bug in "git cherry-pick"?
>
> Could you please test with
> github.com/git/git/commit/c641ca67072946f95f87e7b21f13f3d4e73701e3
> included? (See its parent commit, for the test)
>
> From my cursory read that commit is the issue addressed in that commit.