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This must be the first time that Tim is complaining about me using a 
version of git that is too *new* :)

$ git --version
git version 1.7.0.4

Ed

On Tue, 25 May 2010, Tim Jenness wrote:

> git 1.7 reports any changes in submodules on the assumption that you would care enough to correct them. In these examples the .gitignore files are not as up to date as they should be and so there are untracked files in the submodules that git notices.
>
> I did notice this problem a while back and was hoping that I'd be able to update all the submodules before anyone else upgraded to v1.7. I clearly wasn't fast enough :-)
>
>
> On May 25, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Edward Chapin wrote:
>
>> I suspect this is something that's already been discussed before, but I don't get what's happening.
>>
>> On one of my machines a bunch of submodules keep claiming to have uncommitted changes, e.g.
>>
>> $ git status
>> # On branch master
>> # Changed but not updated:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>> #
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/apache/xerces-c/xerces-c
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/heasarc/cfitsio/cfitsio
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/latex2html/latex2html/latex2html
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/rit/match/match
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/tclsys/blt/blt
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/tclsys/itcl/iwidgets
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/tclsys/tclx/tclx
>> #	modified:   thirdparty/tclsys/tkimg/tkimg
>> #
>>
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> Tim Jenness
> Joint Astronomy Centre
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