From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 06:38:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff --name-only --submodule=diff combination does not work
Message-ID: <20200924063829.GA1851751@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAD2jYq8OtHUpfUZyXC_+FHew45XEtgty3H-XF_2e30mb6kCCmw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:32:12PM -0400, Ilan Biala wrote:

> I expected adding --submodule=diff to add all the filenames in
> submodules that were modified, but the output just shows the submodule
> folder name, not all the files within the submodule that were
> modified.

OK. That does sound like a useful thing to show, but AFAIK there is not
currently a way to do so. Formats like --name-only and --raw are capable
of showing a diff for the submodule entry itself, so they do. And we'd
want to continue to be able to do that even when the diff.submodule
config option is set. So I suspect it would need to be something like
--submodule=name-only. I.e., allowing any diff format to be passed
there.

-Peff