From: Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:00:18 GMT
Subject: Re: [regression?] "git status -a" reports modified for empty submodule directory
Message-ID: <1208887218.25663.449.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320804220539y51c02dedoe181a0eed8599902@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 20:39 +0800, Ping Yin wrote:
> >  > $ git status -a
> >  > # On branch master
> >  > # Changes to be committed:
> >  > #   (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
> >  > #
> >  > #       deleted:    sub
> >  > #
> >
> >  There's nothing wrong with this.
> >
> >  -- Hannes
> 
> It seems that in 1.5.4, both 'git status' and 'git status -a' report
> "no changes added to commit". And i think this is the right behaviour.
> Because when a super project is cloned, all submodule directories are
> empty in the beginning. In this case 'git status' and 'git status -a'
> should report " no changes added to commit".

Agreed 100%

Thanks,
Roman.