Re: [PATCH] builtin/describe.c: ignore untracked changes in submodules

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Sep 13, 2010, 18:18 UTC
Message-ID: <150763691.8130046.1284401891268.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb048>
In-Reply-To: <1258122337.8606899.1284400767503.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb047>

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>>Perhaps the default setting of submodule.<name>.ignore should be 'untracked'?
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>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' .