Re: bug: Directory replaced by submodule -> checkout fails

From: Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de>
Date: Oct 18, 2019, 12:02 UTC
Message-ID: <f66f0587-4d61-71e8-fc87-3278f1023e3d@virtuell-zuhause.de>
In-Reply-To: <20191017230751.GC4049@pseudoephedrine.nightmare-heaven.no-ip.biz>

Am 18.10.2019 um 01:07 schrieb Christopher Collins:

Hi Christopher,

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> ### Reproduce:>
> 
> git clone git@github.com:JuulLabs-OSS/mcuboot.git
> cd mcuboot
> git submodule init
> git submodule update
> git checkout ae01f153b11637feaedbc9d9042172fba2e080c0
> 
> ### Discussion:
> 
> In the above sequence, the last step (checkout) fails with this error:
> 
>     error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/asn1.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/bignum.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/check_config.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/config.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/ecdsa.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/ecp.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/md.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/oid.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/pk.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/platform.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/platform_util.h
>             ext/mbedtls/include/mbedtls/threading.h
>     Please move or remove them before you switch branches.
>     Aborting
>

This is a known bug unfortunately. See https://public-inbox.org/git/CAGZ79kYTY6U0eNwvU0PcDyt_QXGyYGm5VkDvWLtuQgQG6BbtFA@mail.gmail.com/ for reference.