On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:08:06PM +0200, Jens Lehmann wrote: > Am 17.04.2014 18:41, schrieb W. Trevor King: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 06:05:05PM +0100, Jens Lehmann wrote: > >> *) When a submodule is replaced with a tracked file of the same name > >> the submodule work tree including any local modifications (and > >> even the whole history if it uses a .git directory instead of a > >> gitfile!) is simply removed. > >> … > >> I think the first bug really needs to be fixed, as that behavior is > >> extremely nasty. We should always protect work tree modifications > >> (unless forced) and *never* remove a .git directory (even when > >> forced). > > > > I think this should be covered by the usual “don't allow checkouts > > from dirty workdirs unless the dirty-ing changes are easily applied to > > the target tree”. > > Nope, the target tree will be removed completely and everything in > it is silently nuked. It should be allowed with '-f', but only if > the submodule contains a gitfile, and never if it contains a .git > directory (which is just what we do for rm too). I think it's not covered *now* because of a flaw in our “are dirty-ing changes easily applied to the target tree” detection logic, and the solution should involve updating that logic to hit on this case. > b) recursive checkout is the place to consistently care about > submodule modifications (the submodule script doesn't do that and it > is impossible to change that without causing trouble to a lot of > users. I agree that the submodule script is not the place for this, and the core checkout code is. I'd like checkouts to always be recursive, and see --[no-]recurse-submodules as a finger-breaking stop-gap until we can complete that transition for checkout, bisect, merge, reset, and other work-tree altering commands. I think this is one reason why some folks prefer the stiffer joints you get from a subtree approach. Cheers, Trevor -- This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
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