Tim Uckun wrote:
*********Try to rename a directory WTF?: Git thinks any directory with a
.git folder is empty and refuses to rename the directory.
Well, why do other folders contain .git directories?
It just worked out that way. I am experimenting with a rails app and
those plugins were pulled from github.
But not, I take it, as submodules?
Are they
*separate* git repositories? If so, git doesn't know what to do with
them and leaves them alone. (Well, in fact it treats them as
submodules.)
yes they are separate repositories. I would be happy if it left them
alone or treated them as submodules. I was just puzzled as to why git
thought they were empty when they were clearly not.
Because from git's point of view, they were already managed in a
separate repository as a submodule. When you have submodules in a
repository, the parent repository can't (well, won't anyways) track
files inside the submodule directory, so git ignores everything under
a worktree subdirectory that contains a .git folder.
All your other weird problems seem to come from this, as far as I can
tell. If not, it would be helpful if you could give *complete*
reproduction steps for your problem.
Those were the complete steps. I did no other operations on the
directory. So the fact that the test directory is misbehaving is
because a directory in the vendor hierarchy has a .git folder?
I'll have to clean up all those and see if the problem remains.
A better way is probably to import those projects as proper
submodules so you can update them without hassle later. "git help
submodule" should get you a long way, but be prepared to study the
docs a little so you understand the caveats with submodules before
you use them. For instance, you *will* run into problems if you
later replace a worktree subdirectory belonging to the parent git
repository with a submodule, so it's really better to have them as
submodules from the start.
HTH
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