# Files that want to delete themselves 4 messages from 2008-09-24 to 2008-09-24. Participants: Andrew Vit, Petr Baudis, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15655 ## Andrew Vit, 2008-09-24 17:55 Subject: Files that want to delete themselves Message-ID: <19654453.post@talk.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/19654453.post%40talk.nabble.com ``` 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 ..." 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 # ... # ... # ... # -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Files-that-want-to-delete-themselves-tp19654453p19654453.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## Petr Baudis, 2008-09-24 18:04 Subject: Re: Files that want to delete themselves Message-ID: <20080924180436.GJ10544@machine.or.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080924180436.GJ10544%40machine.or.cz In-Reply-To: <19654453.post@talk.nabble.com> ``` 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). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths. ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-09-24 18:05 Subject: Re: Files that want to delete themselves Message-ID: <20080924180547.GA3669@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080924180547.GA3669%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <19654453.post@talk.nabble.com> ``` 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? > > andrew$ git status > # On branch master > # Changes to be committed: > # (use "git reset HEAD ..." 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. -- Shawn. ``` ## Andrew Vit, 2008-09-24 18:18 Subject: Re: Files that want to delete themselves Message-ID: <1222280310309-1116082.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1222280310309-1116082.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <20080924180436.GJ10544@machine.or.cz> ``` 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... Díky za dobrou radu! --Andrew Vit -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Files-that-want-to-delete-themselves-tp1116033p1116082.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ```