# Bug: git-subtree: splitting subtree fails when subtree was added, removed and added again

1 messages from 2024-02-11 to 2024-02-11. Participants: tionis.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/60901

## tionis, 2024-02-11 20:16

Subject: Bug: git-subtree: splitting subtree fails when subtree was added, removed and added again
Message-ID: <1d8fa22c-eb13-4cdb-8499-e19f0dea6b42@tionis.dev>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1d8fa22c-eb13-4cdb-8499-e19f0dea6b42%40tionis.dev

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I discovered a problem in git-subtree that I could also reproduce in a 
minimal proof of concept over at
https://github.com/tionis/git-subtree-bug-poc

The same bug was discussed some time ago on stackoverflow: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68761778/git-subtree-cache-exists

It seems to occur when a subtree was added, removed, alter added again 
and then modified in some commit.

This leads to some error with the cache leading to an error message like

fatal: cache for $commit-hash-here already exists!

I'm unsure how to work around this other than modify the history or 
creating a branch from before the first addition and fixing it there.

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