From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 14:01:11 GMT
Subject: Re: diff.ignoreSubmoudles config setting broken?
Message-ID: <20170308140110.wgdedquqwm75zws2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAHGBnuM3iM-kHdxdox_1i56uLbv7gQ5ZUY9Xqf4BG7G_kTf+jQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 02:43:00PM +0100, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> > 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?
> 
> It says:
> 
> file:/home/seschube/.gitconfig  all

OK, that looks right, so my guess is probably the wrong direction.
Peeking at the code, it looks like there may be some per-submodule
magic, but I don't know how it all works. So I'll stop looking and wait
for somebody more clueful to respond.

-Peff