Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add optional parameters to the diff option "--ignore-submodules"

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> After thinking some time about peoples expectations and troubles
> with the recursive scanning of submodules, I came up with this:
> 
> What about expanding the "--ignore-submodules" option of the git diff
> family with three parameters:
> 
> --ignore-submodules=all : Same behavior as "--ignore-submodules",
>   submodules show never up as modified.
> 
> --ignore-submodules=untracked : Don't consider submodules as modified
>   when they only contain untracked files, but do if the commits in the
>   superproject are different or tracked content is modified.
> 
> --ignore-submodules=dirty : Don't consider submodules as modified
>   when their work tree is dirty, no matter why. This is the pre 1.7.0
>   behavior and doesn't recurse into submodules at all.

Pardon my ignorance: Does this make "dirty" a superset of "untracked"? Or 
are they orthogonal. And how does "all" compare to "dirty"? Are they 
synonyms, or is "all" a superset of "dirty"?

> To make that more useful the default could be controlled by the
> .git/config or .gitmodules file. So you could have two submodules:
> 
> [submodule "sub1"]
> 	path = sub1
> 	url = /home/me/sub1.git/
> 	ignore = dirty
> [submodule "sub2"]
> 	path = sub2
> 	url = /home/me/sub2.git/
> 	ignore = untracked
> 
> [...]
> 
> Opinions?

I agree with adding support for this in .gitmodules, to allow customizing on 
a per-submodule level.


...Johan

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