Re: diff.ignoreSubmoudles config setting broken?

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 8, 2017, 13:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20170308133348.2ovfsi44vq2rpgom@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <5e5b1b92-f7c6-2987-356e-1aab2bff557e@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 01:54:02PM +0100, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

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> I'm getting
> 
> $ git config --global diff.ignoreSubmodules all
> $ git diff
> diff --git a/scanners/scancode-toolkit b/scanners/scancode-toolkit
> index 65e5c9c..6b021a8 160000
> --- a/scanners/scancode-toolkit
> +++ b/scanners/scancode-toolkit
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -Subproject commit 65e5c9c9508441c5f62beff4749cf455c6eadc30
> +Subproject commit 6b021a8addf6d3c5f2a6ef1af6245e095c21d8ec
>
> but with
> 
> $ git diff --ignore-submodules=all

Hrm. Isn't "all" the default? That's what git-diff(1) says (but I've never used the feature myself).

That would imply to me that there's another config option set somewhere (perhaps in the repo-level config). What does:

  git config --show-origin --get-all diff.ignoresubmodules

say?

-Peff