From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:42:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] builtin/read-tree: add --recurse-submodules switch
Message-ID: <xmqqmvcw6750.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170306205919.9713-19-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> 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

generic