[BUG] can't switch branches with submodules

Ramkumar Ramachandra· Feb 9, 2013, 12:25 UTC · lore

Hi,

I have two branches: master and gh-pages. master has one submodule called foo that gh-pages doesn't. When I try to check out gh-pages from master:

    warning: unable to rmdir foo: Directory not empty

And the foo directory exists in my worktree. This is very annoying, and I want to fix it now. Where is this error coming from? How does the worktree get updated when I checkout?

W. Trevor King· Feb 9, 2013, 12:32 UTC · re: Ramkumar Ramachandra · lore

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:55:26PM +0530, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:

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> I have two branches: master and gh-pages.  master has one submodule
> called foo that gh-pages doesn't.  When I try to check out gh-pages
> from master:
> 
>     warning: unable to rmdir foo: Directory not empty
> 
> And the foo directory exists in my worktree.  This is very annoying,
> and I want to fix it now.  Where is this error coming from?  How does
> the worktree get updated when I checkout?

You may want to look at the pending Great Submodule Integration Branch:

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 07:59:53AM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote:

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> I´m currently working on teaching mv to move submodules and intend
> to send those patches to the list after finishing submodule deinit.
> Please see
>   https://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements/commits/mv-submodules
> for the current state of this series.

;) Trevor

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