356664 – Submodule destroyed by checkout

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Bug 356664 - Submodule destroyed by checkout

Summary: Submodule destroyed by checkout

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	EGit
Classification:	Technology
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	1.1
Hardware:	PC Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Importance:	P3 critical (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Project Inbox
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Blocks:	300731 314853
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Reported:	2011-09-03 08:40 EDT by Robin Rosenberg
Modified:	2011-09-18 16:25 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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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.