Thanks. It does have a directory dist-install/ in it - but that's put there by the build system, so if I remove it, it'll just come back. And other libraries (like deepseq) has dist-install too but does not complain. So mysterious. On the other hand git submodule update -recursive *did* fix it. Seems odd. I'm already saying "submodules" and I don' think any submodules have further submodules - or do they? Simon From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Hécate Sent: 15 May 2020 15:37 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: Strange library git glitch My bad, it seems like this is another issue. I found this StackOverflow page quite helpful in explaining the hows and whys: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4873980/git-diff-says-subproject-is-dirt... Cheers, Hécate Le 15/05/2020 à 16:30, Hécate a écrit : Hi Simon, I usually manage to get it to disappear by using `git submodule update --recursive`. Is it a flag you've used in your previous attempts? Cheers, Hécate. Le 15/05/2020 à 16:24, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs a écrit : No amount of git submodule update makes it go away. Any ideas? _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.orgmailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Simon, I think the issue was a missing entry in the .gitignore file. Ryan fixed something to with that in this MR (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/3222) but he says it was the dist-boot rather than dist-install directory. Matt On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:03 PM Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:

Thanks. It does have a directory dist-install/ in it – but that’s put there by the build system, so if I remove it, it’ll just come back. And other libraries (like deepseq) has dist-install too but does not complain. So mysterious.

On the other hand git submodule update –recursive *did* fix it. Seems odd. I’m already saying “submodules” and I don’ think any submodules have further submodules – or do they?

Simon

From: ghc-devs On Behalf Of Hécate Sent: 15 May 2020 15:37 To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: Strange library git glitch

My bad, it seems like this is another issue.

I found this StackOverflow page quite helpful in explaining the hows and whys: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4873980/git-diff-says-subproject-is-dirt...

Cheers,

Hécate

Le 15/05/2020 à 16:30, Hécate a écrit :

Hi Simon,

I usually manage to get it to disappear by using `git submodule update --recursive`. Is it a flag you've used in your previous attempts?

Cheers,

Hécate.

Le 15/05/2020 à 16:24, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs a écrit :

No amount of git submodule update makes it go away. Any ideas?

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