Hi all, Does anyone knows where is this warning is coming from: warning: unable to rmdir my/module: Directory not empty I have a git master, an empty branch and a submodule on master. Switching from master to my 'empty' branch always trigger this warning. Here are some steps to reproduce the issue (*). I am using a debian stable system + backports and version is: $ git --version git version 1.7.1 Thanks -Mathieu (*) # master cd /tmp mkdir test cd test git init touch README git add README git commit -mREADME # submodule cd .. mkdir module cd module git init touch MODULE git add MODULE git commit -mMODULE cd ../test git submodule add file:///tmp/module my/module git commit -a -m"adding submodule" # create an empty branch git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/newbranch rm .git/index git clean -fdx touch EMPTY git add EMPTY git commit -a -mEMPTY # update git checkout master git submodule init git submodule update git checkout newbranch -- 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