daemon: support <directory> arguments again

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 33bc41f069d9807285db6630132e14f8c518ce47..c21b77aee54cd045b7bb64ae7337387569bbf65a 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -93,20 +93,6 @@ module_clone()
        url=$2
        reference="$3"
 
-       # If there already is a directory at the submodule path,
-       # expect it to be empty (since that is the default checkout
-       # action) and try to remove it.
-       # Note: if $path is a symlink to a directory the test will
-       # succeed but the rmdir will fail. We might want to fix this.
-       if test -d "$path"
-       then
-               rmdir "$path" 2>/dev/null ||
-               die "Directory '$path' exists, but is neither empty nor a git repository"
-       fi
-
-       test -e "$path" &&
-       die "A file already exist at path '$path'"
-
        if test -n "$reference"
        then
                git-clone "$reference" -n "$url" "$path"
@@ -241,7 +227,7 @@ cmd_add()
                        # ash fails to wordsplit ${branch:+-b "$branch"...}
                        case "$branch" in
                        '') git checkout -f -q ;;
-                       ?*) git checkout -f -q -b "$branch" "origin/$branch" ;;
+                       ?*) git checkout -f -q -B "$branch" "origin/$branch" ;;
                        esac
                ) || die "Unable to checkout submodule '$path'"
        fi