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From: Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/describe.c: ignore untracked changes in
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>>Perhaps the default setting of submodule.<name>.ignore should be 'untracked'?
>
>I still vote for none. I think the default should be to not have untracked files in
>your projects (like you should not have warnings when compiling your project).
>If that is not wanted, just use the configuration options git provides to change it.

I forgot to mention: I think untracked files should mark a submodule as modified
because otherwise it is too easy to forget adding new files inside submodules,
as they won't show up when the 'ignore' setting is 'untracked' .