From: Jens Lehmann Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 20:20:06 GMT Subject: Re: Git issues with submodules Message-ID: <528FBC76.5060309@web.de> In-Reply-To: Am 22.11.2013 17:12, schrieb Ramkumar Ramachandra: > Jeff King wrote: >>> I just checked it out: it uses `git ls-files -m` to get the list of >>> unstaged changes; `git diff --name-only HEAD --` will list staged >>> changes as well. >> >> That diff command compares the working tree and HEAD; if you are trying >> to match `ls-files -m`, you probably wanted just `git diff --name-only` >> to compare the working tree and the index. Although in a script you'd >> probably want to use the plumbing `git diff-files` instead. > > Thanks for that. It's probably not worth fixing ls-files; I'll patch > Arcanist to use diff-files instead. Good to have an short term solution for Sergey, but Heiko and I discussed this issue and agreed that we should fix ls-files. After all the user explicitly asked not to be bothered with submodule differences by configuring the ignore setting.