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Files that want to delete themselves

Subject: Files that want to delete themselves

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4 messages between Sep 24, 2008 and Sep 24, 2008.

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Andrew Vit· Sep 24, 2008, 17:55 UTC · lore

Hi,

I have a Rails project that I'm managing with git and I have a strange problem with one of the plugin directories. Every time I do `git add .` it tries to delete itself... Any idea what might be happening?

andrew$ git status # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean)

andrew$ git add .

andrew$ git status # On branch master # Changes to be committed: # (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage) # # new file: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/CHANGELOG # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/README.textile # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/Rakefile # deleted: vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/TODO # ... # ... # ... #

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Petr Baudis· Sep 24, 2008, 18:04 UTC · re: Andrew Vit · lore

Re: Files that want to delete themselves

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:55:02AM -0700, Andrew Vit wrote:

> I have a Rails project that I'm managing with git and I have a strange
> problem with one of the plugin directories. Every time I do `git add .` it
> tries to delete itself... Any idea what might be happening?

  so how does that look like in git diff? My guess is you have a .git/
subdirectory there and thus Git assumes that it is a submodule? I don't
think we actually have a way to specify that some directory should NOT
be considered a submodule even if it is a git checkout... So you will
probably either have to actually convert this to a submodule in your
project (probably the sanest thing to do), move the .git subdirectory
away or submit a patch that will add say a .gitattributes flag not to
consider this subdirectory to be a submodule (which might make some
sense).

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Andrew Vit· Sep 24, 2008, 18:18 UTC · re: Petr Baudis · lore

Re: Files that want to delete themselves

Petr Baudis wrote:

> 
>   so how does that look like in git diff? My guess is you have a .git/
> subdirectory there and thus Git assumes that it is a submodule?
>

Yes, that did it! I was sure I deleted that .git directory in the plugin, I'm guessing it came back when I downloaded an updated one a while ago...

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Shawn O. Pearce· Sep 24, 2008, 18:05 UTC · re: Andrew Vit · lore

Re: Files that want to delete themselves

Andrew Vit <andrew@avit.ca> wrote:

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> 
> I have a Rails project that I'm managing with git and I have a strange
> problem with one of the plugin directories. Every time I do `git add .` it
> tries to delete itself... Any idea what might be happening?
> 
> andrew$ git status
> # On branch master
> # Changes to be committed:
> #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> #
> #	new file:   vendor/plugins/restful_authentication
> #	deleted:    vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/CHANGELOG
> #	deleted:    vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/README.textile
> #	deleted:    vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/Rakefile
> #	deleted:    vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/TODO

Are you on a case-insensitive filesystem like HFS+?

Is it possible that restful_authentication exists as a file in your working directory, but as a directory in Git, but with a different case?

What does `git ls-tree HEAD:vendor/plugins` show you as the last committed contents of vendor/plugins?

I'm a little stumped, but it sounds like the issues that have come up before due to a case-insensitive filesystem.

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