Minor issue: Status of sub-externals shown incorrectly during checkout

[billsacks]

Summary of Issue:

When running checkout_externals -v, the status of sub-externals is shown incorrectly. I have determined that this problem came in with 1ae8c84 (Merge bugfix branch for stale subexternals into master).

The end result is correct, so this isn't a big deal. This just makes checkout_externals -v less useful than it otherwise would be.

Expected behavior and actual behavior:

Expected behavior (and the behavior prior to the above commit):

[roo2:~/temporary/cism-wrapper-temp2]$ ./manage_externals/checkout_externals -v
Processing externals description file : Externals.cfg
Processing externals description file : Externals_CISM.cfg
Processing externals description file : Externals_CLM.cfg
Checking status of externals: cism, source_cism, mosart, ctsm, fates, ptclm, cime,
Checking out externals:


    ./components/mosart
        clean sandbox, on mosart1_0_30

    ./components/clm
        clean sandbox, on clm4_5_18_r274

    ./cime
        clean sandbox, on cime5.4.0-alpha.24

Checking out externals:

    ./glimmer-cism
        clean sandbox, on cism/branch_tags/longer_var_list_tags/longer_var_list_n01_cism2_1_develop_n02

Checking out externals:

    ./components/clm/src/fates
        clean sandbox, on fates_s1.4.1_a3.0.0_rev2

    ./components/clm/tools/PTCLM
        clean sandbox, on PTCLM2_171216c

Current, incorrect behavior:

[roo2:~/temporary/cism-wrapper-temp2]$ ./manage_externals/checkout_externals -v
Processing externals description file : Externals.cfg
Processing externals description file : Externals_CISM.cfg
Processing externals description file : Externals_CLM.cfg
Checking status of externals: cism, source_cism, mosart, ctsm, fates, ptclm, cime,
Checking out externals:


    ./components/mosart
        clean sandbox, on mosart1_0_30

    ./components/clm
        clean sandbox, on clm4_5_18_r274

    ./cime
        clean sandbox, on cime5.4.0-alpha.24

Processing externals description file : Externals_CISM.cfg
Checking out externals:

---
        -,  -->
    svn switch https://svn-ccsm-models.cgd.ucar.edu/cism/branch_tags/longer_var_list_tags/longer_var_list_n01_cism2_1_develop_n02

Processing externals description file : Externals_CLM.cfg
Checking out externals:

---
        -,  -->
    git checkout fates_s1.4.1_a3.0.0_rev2

---
        -,  -->
    git checkout PTCLM2_171216c

Steps to reproduce the problem (should include model description file(s) or link to publi c repository):

git clone [email protected]:ESCOMP/cism-wrapper.git
cd cism-wrapper
git checkout cism2_1_50
rm -rf manage_externals
git clone [email protected]:NCAR/manage_externals.git
./manage_externals/checkout_externals
./manage_externals/checkout_externals -v

What is the changeset ID of the code, and the machine you are using:

See above for notes on changeset ID

have you modified the code? If so, it must be committed and available for testing:

no

Screen output or log file showing the error message and context:

see above

[billsacks]

@bandre-ucar Here's another which, if it would be fairly quick for you, it would be great to get your help on. But I see this as low priority, so only worth doing if it would be quick for you to fix.