Heiko Voigt wrote: > What I think needs fixing here first is that the ignore setting should not > apply to any diffs between HEAD and index. IMO, it should only apply > to the diff between worktree and index. > > When we have that the user does not see the submodule changed when > normally working. But after doing git add . the change to the submodule > should be shown in status and diff regardless of the configuration.
Yeah, I think this is a good direction. > After that we can discuss whether add should add submodules that are > tracked but not shown. How about commit -a ? Should it also ignore the > change? Here, I think ignored submodules should behave like files matched by .gitignore: add should not add (`add -f` would be a good way to force it), and `commit -a` should also exclude it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
