In a project with a submodule, if you merge two diverging branches in which one branch updated which commit the submodule points to, and the other branch moves the submodule to a new location, the resulting merge error message does not provide information about what the conflict was, or the path to the conflicted directory.
I've attached a short script which sets up a project with a submodule and creates both branches. If after running it you cd into 'top-level-project' and run 'git merge branch_that_points_the_submodule_to_new_commit' the resulting error message is:
Auto-merging submodule-moved Adding as submodule-moved~HEAD instead Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
I would have expected an output in line with other merge conflict messages. Something with the format:
CONFLICT (<REASON>): Merge conflict in <PATH_TO_CONFLICT>
Where <REASON> would be something like (delete/modify) I believe this might be a bug in the implementation.
Thank you