Re: [PATCH 18/18] builtin/read-tree: add --recurse-submodules switch

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2017, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqmvcw6750.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170306205919.9713-19-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> A new known failure mode is introduced[1], which is actually not
> a failure but a feature in read-tree. Unlike checkout for which
> the recursive submodule tests were originally written, read-tree does
> warn about ignored untracked files that would be overwritten.
> For the sake of keeping the test library for submodules genric, just

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