From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spurious warning when moving a file in presence of submodules
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 19:53:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52583B00.8040700@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq38o7nao9.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
Hi Matthieu,
Am 11.10.2013 16:29, schrieb Matthieu Moy:
> I'm getting this warning:
>
> warning: Could not find section in .gitmodules where path=XXX
>
> whenever I use "git mv" to move a file in a repository containing a
> submodule. The file is outside the submodule and is completely
> unrelated, so I do not understand the intent of the warning.
>
> My understanding (without looking at the code in detail) is that Git
> tries to be clever about submodule renames, hence checks whether the
> source file is a submodule. But then if the lookup fails, it should just
> silently move on to "normal file move" mode I guess...
Right. Thanks for reporting, I can reproduce that here and am currently
looking into that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-11 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-11 14:29 Spurious warning when moving a file in presence of submodules Matthieu Moy
2013-10-11 17:53 ` Jens Lehmann [this message]
2013-10-13 11:52 ` [PATCH] mv: Fix spurious " Jens Lehmann
2013-10-13 15:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-10-13 18:37 ` Jens Lehmann
2013-10-14 5:40 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-10-14 12:33 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-10-17 18:24 ` Jonathan Nieder
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=52583B00.8040700@web.de \
--to=jens.lehmann@web.de \
--cc=Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr \
--cc=git@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).