From: Yin Ping <pkufranky@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:50:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Message-ID: <46dff0320711021650q4e56d025q63a961176c682a14@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd4us1jds.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/3/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.



-- 
franky