Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk

From: Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date: Jan 6, 2010, 14:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4B4498BC.5040400@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vbph8oxg0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Am 06.01.2010 02:04, schrieb Junio C Hamano:

> After all we _were_ in agreement.  We both think the user should be told
> about untracked files in submodule directory when inspecting the status to
> make a commit in the superproject.

Thanks. So i'll take a closer look at the diff core (but i suspect i'll need some time until i can come up with some patches because i don't know this part of git very well).

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