Re: git-subtree: directory mismatch

[Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Marc Fournier
<marc.fournier@camptocamp.com> wrote:
> I was not able to reproduce this bug in any of the following cases:
>  - if the README file wasn't empty
>  - if modules/cognac is renamed to something else
>  - if modules/cognac doesn't have the same sub-directories than
>   modules/mapserver
>
> This bug happens using git 1.5.5.6 as well as 1.6.5. It seems to happen
> when git-subtree calls "git merge -s subtree".

Yup.  This is basically a bug in "git merge -s subtree": it guesses
which subtree to merge into, rather than actually taking a prefix
parameter.  I've been meaning to either submit a patch for this, or
find a way to work around it.

This doesn't usually happen once your project is relatively mature
(ie. doesn't have blank or "default" template files in it) since then
the auto-guessing gets more reliable.  But there's no good reason to
do the auto-guessing, so it would be best to do this "properly."

Sorry that I haven't had time to fix it yet...

Avery