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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:22:33 -0800
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"Yin Ping" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> However, in some cases these messages are helpful. And a third kind of
> cases is that people care about only part of all submodules.
>
> So, maybe some an switch can be used to turn this on or off (default
> off)?

I personally think that is overengineering.  Isn't having/not
having the submodule directory cloned a good enough indicator
of which submodules are interested in by the user?