I don't want to categorize this as bug until I hear expert panel's opinion. Spare me if its a known issue or if I am doing something silly :) I did enough research online and couldn't find a good answer. Here it goes.. Let's say if I have a folder called "ParentGITRepo" which is a local GIT repo. I have sub folders called "Child1Repo" and "Child2" with some files on it. For some reason, whether accidentally or deliberately, I make "Child1Repo" a GIT repo on its own. GIT recognizes ParentGITRepo & Child1Repo as separate GIT repositories. But, if I clone "ParentGITRepo" into somewhere else, I am missing everything from Child1Repo. The worse thing is, even if I cleanup "Child1Repo" by removing it's .git folder, the parent GIT repo is ignoring any activity I do in that folder. I think, the right way to do this setup is probably using git sub modules or something. But given this scenario, what is the expected behaviour? Am i missing? It would really make more sense if you can go thro the following steps (test cases) outlined below. # Setting up ParentGITRepo & Child1Repo and Child2 $ cd ~ $ mkdir ParentGITRepo $ cd ParentGITRepo/ $ git init . $ mkdir Child1Repo $ mkdir Child2 $ cd Child1Repo/ $ git init . $ echo "Child1RepoFile" > Child1RepoFile.txt $ git add . $ git commit -a -m "Adding Child1Repo content" [master (root-commit) 01ccc52] Adding Child1Repo content 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Child1RepoFile.txt $ cd ../Child2/ $ echo "Child2 file content" > Child2File.txt $ cd .. $ echo "Parentfile" > ParentFile.txt $ git add . $ git commit -a -m "Adding Parent content" [master (root-commit) b31d0a5] Adding Parent content 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 160000 Child1Repo create mode 100644 Child2/Child2File.txt create mode 100644 ParentFile.txt --------------------------------------- # Now verify ParentGITRepo & Child1Repo working independently $ cd ~/ParentGITRepo/ $ git log commit b31d0a5aef19c6b119d89718f560905ad0f34aa7 Author: Siddique Hameed <siddii+git@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Apr 22 11:25:15 2011 -0500 Adding Parent content $ cd ~/ParentGITRepo/Child1Repo/ $ git log commit 01ccc52931f8b40f6d92b29769300a254d8dd411 Author: Siddique Hameed <siddii+git@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Apr 22 11:22:00 2011 -0500 Adding Child1Repo content -------------------------------------------- # Now try cloning ParentGITRepo & verify the contents inside it $ cd ~ $ git clone ParentGITRepo/ ParentGITRepoClone/ Cloning into ParentGITRepoClone... done. $ cd ParentGITRepoClone/ $ ls -a ./ ../ .git/ Child1Repo/ Child2/ ParentFile.txt $ cd Child1Repo/ $ ls -a ./ ../ $ git log commit b31d0a5aef19c6b119d89718f560905ad0f34aa7 Author: Siddique Hameed <siddii+git@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Apr 22 11:25:15 2011 -0500 Adding Parent content -------------------------------------------- As you can see there is nothing in Child1Repo after its was cloned. I also tried the reverse of this. Like, having a child folder as GIT repo and make a ParentFolder a repo on its own & clone the parent folder and the cloned folder doesnt contain anything from child repo. Let me know if you have more questions. Thanks, Siddique -- 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