From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:40:07 GMT
Subject: Re: __git_ps1 not showing submodule dirty state
Message-ID: <200912310240.07741.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <A98B75F4-B9BD-4CB4-9335-754C59ECB64F@sb.org>

On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> Why does the __git_ps1 function in git-completion.bash explicitly ignore
>  submodules when showing the GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE status? The most
>  common issue with my current repository is not realizing when submodules
>  need to be updated because I blindly trust my prompt to tell me when I
>  have dirty state.

According to git blame, it has been there since GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE was 
introduced in 738a94a... by Thomas Rast (CCed), but the commit message does 
not say why submodules are explicitly ignored.

FWIW, I agree with Kevin, and would like changed submodules to be included 
in the status.


...Johan

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