Re: [PATCH v2 7/9] git rm: do not abort due to an initialised submodule

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,
...
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.
 	 */

@@ -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));