I added a submodule to my project like this (all from the root of the project)
git submodule add git@..... path/to/submodule
git submodule init
git add path/to/submodule
git commit -m 'I added a submodule!'
git push
All looks good and 'git status' reports 'nothing to commit'
However, I now cannot change branches. On checkout, I get...
"error: The following untracked working tree files would be
overwritten by checkout:"
(followed by a big list of all the files in the submodule)
Where did I go wrong and what can I do to sort it?
Thanks again!
Am 11.10.2011 11:38, schrieb Howard Miller:
I added a submodule to my project like this (all from the root of the project)
git submodule add git@..... path/to/submodule
git submodule init
git add path/to/submodule
git commit -m 'I added a submodule!'
git push
All looks good and 'git status' reports 'nothing to commit'
However, I now cannot change branches. On checkout, I get...
"error: The following untracked working tree files would be
overwritten by checkout:"
(followed by a big list of all the files in the submodule)
Where did I go wrong and what can I do to sort it?
Hmm, as I don't know for what checkout you see this problem (do you
switch from a branch containing the submodule to one that doesn't
have it or the other way round?) and assuming you had some files
committed in the directory where the submodule lives I can take a
guess what happened:
Could it be the case that you converted an existing directory into a
submodule and then get this error when you want to switch back to a
branch where this directory is still filled with the original files?
Then this is a known shortcoming of submodules at the moment. I have
experimental code to make Git work in that case but it is not ready
for inclusion yet.