On 09/26/2013 11:38 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > (cc-ing Duy, who knows the setup code well) > Manish Gill wrote: > >> I have a git repository with lots of submodules. In one particular >> submodule, I'm having the following problem: >> >> If I try to switch branches at the top-level of that submodule, I succeed. >> >> But, if I try to switch branches in any subsequen levels, I get the >> following error: >> >> fatal: internal error: work tree has already been set >> Current worktree: ../path/Mailman3/rest_project >> New worktree: ../path/Mailman3/rest_project/website/public_rest >> >> Here, Mailman3 is the primary repository and "rest_project" is a >> submodule. I can do "git checkout" just fine >> inside rest_project, but not after cd-ing into any other repos. >> >> My git version is 1.8.4 >> >> Other commands, like git status, push/pull are working fine. > > Interesting. Yeah, this shouldn't happen. > > What is the exact command you use to get the above output? git checkout <branch_name> Is your > repository public (which would let us reproduce it) or can you > reproduce it by creating a small artificial test repository The repo isn't public, I'm afraid. I should mention what *exactly* happened that led to this. I was trying to publish my branch on Launchpad (using git-remote-bzr). At some point, I had the genius idea to remote the extra stuff from the config file and just try with the bzr:: remote as origin, and instead of doing it via the console, I just replaced the config file. Annnnyway, I just restored my backed up config file for that submodule in the middle of writing this and seems like things seem to work now. I dunno, this was most likely because of some configuration derp on my part (the new config file didn't contain the branch information most likely). So I guess problem solved! Thanks for your help.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature