Re: can anybody explain the following to a git noob?

[Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com>]

>> *********Try to rename a directory  WTF?: Git thinks any directory with a
>> .git folder is empty and refuses to rename the directory.
>
> Well, why do other folders contain .git directories?

It just worked out that way.  I am experimenting with a rails app and
those plugins were pulled from github.

>  Are they
> *separate* git repositories?  If so, git doesn't know what to do with
> them and leaves them alone.  (Well, in fact it treats them as
> submodules.)


yes they are separate repositories. I would be happy if it left them
alone or treated them as submodules.  I was just puzzled as to why git
thought they were empty when they were clearly not.

> All your other weird problems seem to come from this, as far as I can
> tell.  If not, it would be helpful if you could give *complete*
> reproduction steps for your problem.

Those were the complete steps. I did no other operations on the
directory.  So the fact that the test directory is misbehaving is
because a directory in the vendor hierarchy has a .git folder?

I'll have to clean up all those and see if the problem remains.