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From: "Pat Maddox" <pergesu@gmail.com>
Subject: git add after changing a submodule
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:50:48 -0700
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If I make a change to a submodule and commit it, I then have to add it
to the parent repo.  If I do

git add path/to/submodule

then it works fine.  But if I do

git add path/to/submodule/ (with trailing slash)

then it blows away the submodule and adds all the files in that directory.

Seems pretty dangerous to me.  I know that I can just use git commit
-a to do it, but I'd like to prevent the mistake of adding the path
and screwing up the repo.  Is it possible to protect the submodules a
bit more?

Pat