* bugreport: git checkout --recurse-submodules overwrites unstaged changes
@ 2018-12-19 7:25 Petr Gregor
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From: Petr Gregor @ 2018-12-19 7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hello,
I believe we found a reproducible bug in git checkout
--recurse-submodules command. Documentation says, that this command
should not overwrite unstaged changes in submodules unless -f is
given. In reality local changes can be accidentally overwritten even
without -f flag.
I reproduced the issue with git version 2.20.1 like this:
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/Gregy/znapzend-debian submodule
git add . && git commit -m 'first'
git checkout -b 'newbranch'
(cd submodule && git checkout a3a7b0)
git add . && git commit -m 'set new branch to different submodule commit'
echo 'test' > submodule/debian/compat #create an unstaged change
git checkout master --recurse-submodules
#my change is overwritten
Thank you for maintaining git, it is awesome!
Petr Gregor
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