Hi,
When switching clean branches I see untracked files appearing where I expect to see "nothing to commit, working tree clean".
This happens when submodules get removed on one branch but its present in another.
I expect git to either not mark the submodule in git status as untracked or git to remove the submodule as it would for ordinary tracked files which do not exist on a branch anymore.
Tested on Windows with: git version 2.15.1.windows.2
Tested on Ubuntu Linux with same output: git version 2.14.1
Test:
git init test
git init submodule
cd submodule
touch file.txt
git add file.txt
git commit -m "test"
cd ../test
touch initial.txt
git add initial.txt
git commit -m "initial"
git checkout -b develop
git status
#On branch develop
#nothing to commit, working tree clean
git submodule add ../submodule sub
git add sub
git commit -m "submodule added"
git status
#On branch develop
#nothing to commit, working tree clean
git checkout master
git status
#On branch master
#Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# sub/
#
#nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
# expected: nothing to commit, working tree clean
git submodule update
# (no output)
git submodule
# (no output)
git status
#On branch master
#Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# sub/
#
#nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
# expected: nothing to commit, working tree clean
git clean -dfx
#Skipping repository sub/
Best Regards,
Mike Friedrich
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