On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:12:15AM -0700, Brandon Williams wrote: > On 06/18, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > This sounds like the submodule specific code in pathspec.c, which has > > been replaced with something else in bw/pathspec-sans-the-index. If > > you have time, try a version without those changes (e.g. v2.13 or > > before) to see if it's a possible culprit. > > I just tested this with v2.13 and saw the same issue. I don't actually > think this ever worked in the way you want it to Heiko. Maybe git add > needs to be taught to be more intelligent when trying to add a submodule > which doesn't exist in the index.
That was also my guess, since my feeling is that this is a quite rare use case. Adding submodules alone is not a daily thing, let alone selecting different changes after 'git submodule add'. I also think git could be more intelligent here. Cheers Heiko
