This patch causes the "git rm" command to consider "directory not
empty" errors as nonfatal, which will be caused by a submodule being
in an initialised state. As this is a normal state for a submodule,
it should not cause us to abort. Neither should we recursively delete
the submodule directory as it may contain unsaved data.
Signed-off-by: Peter Collingbourne <redacted>
---
builtin/rm.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/rm.c b/builtin/rm.c
index 6ac5114..02ee259 100644
--- a/builtin/rm.c
+++ b/builtin/rm.c
@@ -250,7 +250,9 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
* abort the "git rm" (but once we've successfully removed
* any file at all, we'll go ahead and commit to it all:
* by then we've already committed ourselves and can't fail
- * in the middle)
+ * in the middle). However failure to remove a submodule
+ * directory due to the submodule being initialised is never
+ * a fatal condition.
*/
if (!index_only) {
int removed = 0;@@ -261,7 +263,7 @@ int cmd_rm(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
removed = 1;
continue;
}
- if (!removed)
+ if (!removed && errno != EEXIST && errno != ENOTEMPTY)
die_errno("git rm: '%s'", path);
else
warning("git rm: '%s': %s", path, strerror(errno));--
1.6.5