Peter Collingbourne <peter@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This patch causes the "git rm" command to consider "directory not > empty" errors as nonfatal, which will be caused by a submodule being > in an initialised state. As this is a normal state for a submodule, > ... > Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <peter@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > builtin/rm.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/builtin/rm.c b/builtin/rm.c > index 6ac5114..02ee259 100644 > --- a/builtin/rm.c > +++ b/builtin/rm.c > @@ -250,7 +250,9 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > * abort the "git rm" (but once we've successfully removed > * any file at all, we'll go ahead and commit to it all: > * by then we've already committed ourselves and can't fail > - * in the middle) > + * in the middle). However failure to remove a submodule > + * directory due to the submodule being initialised is never > + * a fatal condition. > */ Your messages both in the commit log and comment talk only about submodules, ... > @@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) > removed = 1; > continue; > } > - if (!removed) > + if (!removed && errno != EEXIST && errno != ENOTEMPTY) > die_errno("git rm: '%s'", path); > else > warning("git rm: '%s': %s", path, strerror(errno)); ... but the code does not seem to limit itself to the case where a submodule removal has failed. How does this patch affect the failure case for regular files and directories without any submodules? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html