Mark Waite edited a comment on Bug JENKINS-22510

I've been trying to understand the sequence of git operations which arrive at that state, and haven't yet understood them. My attempts have persuaded me that I don't understand submodules. I used my fork of the git-client-plugin for my experiments.

Clone the repository - works

git clone git://github.com/MarkEWaite/git-client-plugin
cd git-client-plugin
ls modules/ntp # reports an error, no content in modules/ntp

Checkout tests/getSubmodules - works

git checkout tests/getSubmodules
git submodule update --init --recursive
ls modules/ntp # Shows there is content in modules/ntp

Checkout master again - works

git checkout master # warns there are untracked files in modules directory
ls modules/ntp # shows content in modules/ntp is still there

git clean -xfd # skips modules/ntp and modules/firewall
ls modules/ntp # shows content in modules/ntp is still there

git clean -xffd # deletes modules/ntp and modules/firewall
ls modules/ntp # no content in modules/ntp

Checkout branch containing a conflicting file - works

git checkout tests/notSubmodules
ls modules/ntp # one file in modules/ntp

Checkout tests/getSubmodules again - works

git checkout tests/getSubmodules
git submodule update --init --recursive

Checkout branch containing a conflicting file - fails

git checkout tests/notSubmodules # fails - untracked files would be overwritten

Unfortunately, I've not yet found a sequence of "clean" and "checkout" commands which will allow me to switch from tests/getSubmodules to tests/notSubmodules.

In that repository, the branch to branch transitions seem behave like this:

Current Branch Branch to Checkout Result
master tests/getSubmodules ok
master tests/notSubmodules ok
tests/getSubmodules master ok
tests/notSubmodules master ok
tests/getSubmodules tests/notSubmodules fails
tests/notSubmodules tests/getSubmodules fails
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