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Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.

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Yin Ping <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 2, 2007, 23:50 UTC
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On 11/3/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> How does this work when you are a toplevel developer and do not
> have the submodule cloned and checked out?
>
> Our code should treat having the submodule directory and not
> having it when there is a mode 160000 entry in the index equally
> likely.  Cloning and checking-out is _not_ the norm (nor the
> exception).
>

When submodule is not cheched out, it is never modified. In this case modules variable will be empty ( since git diff --cached is used) and the corrosponding module directory will not be checked. So the output will be the same as the original output.

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franky
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  1. status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.Ping Yin, Nov 2, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2007
  3. Yin PingNov 2, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2007
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