Strange library git glitch

[Matthew Pickering]

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
<ghc-devs at haskell.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Simon
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> From: ghc-devs <ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org> On Behalf Of Hécate
> Sent: 15 May 2020 15:37
> To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> Subject: Re: Strange library git glitch
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> My bad, it seems like this is another issue.
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> I found this StackOverflow page quite helpful in explaining the hows and whys:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4873980/git-diff-says-subproject-is-dirty
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> Cheers,
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> Hécate
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> Le 15/05/2020 à 16:30, Hécate a écrit :
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> Hi Simon,
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> 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?
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> Cheers,
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> Hécate.
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> Le 15/05/2020 à 16:24, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs a écrit :
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> No amount of git submodule update makes it go away.  Any ideas?
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