On Tue, 13 Dec 2016, Wido den Hollander wrote: > Hi, > > I've been seeing this multiple times when switching Git branches on git Git repo: > > wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/ceph$ git branch > firefly > hammer > jewel > * master > wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/ceph$ git checkout jewel > error: Updating the following directories would lose untracked files in it: > src/gmock > > Aborting > wido@wido-desktop:~/repos/ceph$ > > The gmock submodule is often preventing me from switching branches. > > Since I don't work with Git submodules that much I usually end up > removing the directory and going a submodule update. That's what I do too. :) The problem is that the submodule structure changed after jewel. > Is that the good way to go? And am I the only one running into this? I just keep a separate checkout for jewel (and each other release), e.g. git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:ceph/ceph ceph.jewel git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:ceph/ceph ceph.hammer That reduces the amount of rebuilding I have to do (at the expense of disk space). sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
