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

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Jan 4, 2010, 19:21 UTC
Message-ID: <4B423FAA.8070106@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7viqbhelmh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 04.01.2010 20:05, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

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> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de> writes:
> 
>> 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.

> Both will be valid approaches to work toward the same goal.  A separate
> prototype implementation can be a way to easily figure out what the
> desired features are.

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> For the past 12 months, you and Johan Herland were the people who had more
> than one patches with substance to git-submodule.sh and I would really
> appreciate and at the same time want to encourage experimentation by
> people like you who are heavy users with need for a better submodule
> support.

Right. It was not my intention to discourage such experimentations with my reply. I'm sorry if my email made this impression.