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Bug 356664

Summary:	Submodule destroyed by checkout
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P3	CC:	matthias.sohn, stefan.lay
Version:	1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	300731, 314853

Description Robin Rosenberg

2011-09-03 08:40:39 EDT

If you have a submodule and switch to a branch without the submodule, EGit destroys the
submodule directory.

Depending on your ui settings the deletion may happen without warning.

Comment 1 Robin Rosenberg

2011-09-03 18:17:14 EDT

Patches:
http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4133
http://egit.eclipse.org/r/#change,4134

Comment 2 Robin Rosenberg

2011-09-05 11:13:19 EDT

Changing to critical since work might get destroyed by this bug.

Comment 3 Stefan Lay

2011-09-09 11:21:23 EDT

Fixed with 576abf64d138606814e4b67c8110c4ee1ae1b2ac in JGit and 118228576e64895a7a24e2c6bac7a5289ea86c10 in EGit.