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Git is consistently deleting 2 directories from my repository, how can I troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

+1 A:

Can't tell you for sure, but I'd look into whether the problem is related to having the "blackbook" and "contacts" plugins specified as git submodules.

fig 2009-06-04 20:26:53

this is definitely the problem, looking into a solution

Tony 2009-06-04 20:56:57

Answer 2

+3 A:

Weird. You have a blog entry reporting that exact same issue. With submodules, as mentioned in Dave's answer.

This was only fixed by removing the version control on the “restful_authentication” directory:

.~/projects/bushi2do master $ rm -rf vendor/plugins/restful_authentication/.git
.~/projects/bushi2do master $ git add .
.~/projects/bushi2do master $ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

The downside to this fix is that you can no longer ‘git pull’ on the plugin’s directory to grab the updates.

How about

git rm --cached vendor/plugins/contacts
git rm --cached vendor/plugins/blackbook

?

And how did you declare your submodules within you plugins directory ?

Because I remember a classic catch with submodules.
If you use git submodules, don't do git add foo/ (watch that trailing slash!) if foo is your submodule. It gets messy.

From here:

When you use git add on a submodule, make sure you don’t have a tailing slash.

> git add local/path
  -- adds the submodule

> git add local/path/
  -- adds all the files in the submodule directly into your repository, big no-no

VonC 2009-06-04 20:43:18

you are right about the problem and thanks for the code to remove scm from a module

Tony 2009-06-04 20:57:21

git rm --cached vendor/plugins/contacts will remove the plugin which i don't want to do. i didn't even bother with submodules because i didn't know i had to. i just did a git clone in my vendors/plugins directory. so im learning this the hard way. the main issue i see now is a bunch of "No submodule mapping found in .gitmodules for path ..." git probably sees that i have git repos underneath but not defined as submodules (therefore it has no repo to update). ....still working on it.

Tony 2009-06-04 21:49:24

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