Fredrik Gustafsson wrote:
> > [removing a submodule and adding another under the same name
> > confuses git]
>
> This is something I did not thought about when writing that patch. The
> reason that this fails is that the part when the first submodule is
> removed is no longer complete (as intended). Before this patch
> git config --remove-section submodule.sub &&
> git rm .gitmodules &&
> rm -rf sub &&
> Did remove all the data associated with the submodule. That's no longer
> the case.
So maybe the right questions to ask would be: what's the *official*
way of removing a submodule completely? Do we support overwriting
submodules in the way Manuel wanted to? Why not? :-)
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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