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Bug 346816

Summary:	GUI to download and update Submodules is missing
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Joerg Mising name <mueller062001-reg>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk
Version:	0.12
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Joerg Mising name

2011-05-22 14:36:20 EDT

I have a repository, where the content of some folders is included as a submodule. We have lines like these in .gitmodules:

[submodule "typo3/sysext/version"]
path = typo3/sysext/version
url = git://git.typo3.org/TYPO3v4/CoreProjects/workspaces/version.git


I have cloned the repository and added it to the repository view in Eclipse.
- Then I "Fetch" a change and a new branch is created.
- But when I try to "Checkout" that branch, this does not work.
I get the following error:

Checkout Conflicts:
"The files below have uncommited changes, which would be lost when checking out "(branch name)". Please either add the changes to the repository by creating or amending a commit with these changes or dispose these changes by resetting your current HEAD."
Then follows a list of the folders, which should be included as submodules, but are missing.

A way to initialize the local configuration file and update the submodule in EGit is missing.

On the shell that would be:
git submodule init
git submodule update

I use
Eclipse 3.6 Service Release 2 and
EGit nightly from May 20th 2011.

Comment 1 Chris Aniszczyk

2011-05-22 19:38:24 EDT

Submodules aren't supported by JGit yet and won't be for 1.0

This is a dupe of bug 314853.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 314853 ***

Comment 2 Joerg Mising name

2011-05-23 07:23:40 EDT

Hi Chris,

thanks for the answer.

That error message (uncommitted changes) makes it impossible for me to Checkout the new branch.

Can you tell me how I can prevent the message?
Or with other words:
How can I use the branch?