Sorry, I should have mentioned: git 2.26.2 on SLES12 SP5 >>> Ulrich Windl schrieb am 29.12.2021 um 13:24 in Nachricht <61CC5390.C34 : 161 : 60728>: > Hi! > > I wonder whether you'd think this is a bug: > When a branch uses a submodule (named "submodule" here), and when you > checkout another branch that does not (yet) have that submodule, I get an > error message saying: > warning: unable to rmdir 'submodule': Directory not empty > > Well obviously the directory is not empty. The point is: Is the user > expected to remove submodule directories manually before switching branches? > > When I tried "git checkout master --recurse-submodules" instead, the > submodule directory was "mostly deleted", only leaving two object files that > weren't ".gitignore"d. > (But the error message was the same) > > Wouldn't a message like "... submodule directory contains untracked files; > won't delete those..." be better? > > Regards, > Ulrich > >
