From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:18:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/describe.c: ignore untracked changes in submodules
Message-ID: <150763691.8130046.1284401891268.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb048>
In-Reply-To: <1258122337.8606899.1284400767503.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb047>

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