Also seeing the "problem with cherry-picking a commit which comes before introducing a new submodule"

Described in this thread, http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg737184.html, 
and this thread, http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg705275.html, is a 
problem similar to what I've been seeing today.  It seems I can resolve 
the "conflicting" submodule(s) and continue on, but it is a bit painful 
as there are a small number of them.  I also tried an interactive rebase 
and assigning a 'pick' entry with the commit I'd like to cherry-pick, 
and the same problem manifests.

In any case, it seems Jonathan Nieder has potentially identified the 
problem at http://lists.zerezo.com/git/msg737401.html.

Has a patch come through that addresses this?  If one did, did it make 
it into 1.7.4?

Thanks!

Josh