On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Braun <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently in the progress of pulling some subprojects in a git repository of mine into their own repositories and adding these subprojects back as submodules. > > While doing this I enountered a potential bug as checkout complains on branch switching that a file already exists. (And I presume you know about --recurse-submodules as a flag for git-checkout) This is consistent with our tests, unfortunately. git/t$ ./t2013-checkout-submodule.sh ... not ok 15 - git checkout --recurse-submodules: replace submodule with a directory # TODO known breakage ... > If I'm misusing git here I'm glad for any advice. You are not. Apart from this bug report, would you think that such filtering of trees into submodules (and back again) might be an interesting feature of Git or are these cases rare and special? Thanks, Stefan
