Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Jan 4, 2010, 18:40 UTC
Message-ID: <4B423633.6090603@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf1001040951r3f797750o5ebd25e93c0272ea@mail.gmail.com>

Am 04.01.2010 18:51, schrieb Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy:

> Incidentally I was just drafting git-super.sh it see how far it goes.
> The goal was to implement some cross-module operations over time. "git
> super status", "git super commit" and others could be handy.

Hm, i'm not sure if this will really help us. I would rather see "git status" and friends do the right thing for submodules too. Maybe this has to be configurable but i think the separate commands that one has to use for submodules now are part of the usability problems we are seeing.

IMHO putting the functionality of "git submodule summary" into "git diff" was a step in the right direction. This thread is about adding a line to the diff output when diffing against the working directory and a submodule has a dirty working directory too. Then you can ask "git diff" and it tells you anything you need to know about the submodule before committing or checking out in the supermodule (And IMO later on "git status" should give us this information too).