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Re: Git issues with submodules

From
Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Date
Nov 23, 2013, 20:32 UTC
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Am 22.11.2013 22:54, schrieb Heiko Voigt:
> What I think needs fixing here first is that the ignore setting should not
> apply to any diffs between HEAD and index. IMO, it should only apply
> to the diff between worktree and index.

Not only that. It should also apply to diffs between commits/trees and work tree but not between commits/trees. The reason the ignore setting was added three years ago was to avoid expensive work tree operations when it was clear that either the information wasn't wanted or it took too much time to determine that. And I doubt you want to see modifications to submodules in your work tree when diffing against HEAD but not when diffing against the index.

And this behavior happens to be just what the floating branch model needs too. I'm not sure there isn't a use case out there that also needs to silence diff & friends regarding submodule changes between commits/trees and/or index too (even though I cannot come up with one at the moment). So I propose to add "worktree" as another value for the ignore option - which ignores submodule modifications in the work tree - and leave "all" as it is.

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Message 45 of 51 in “Git issues with submodules”
  1. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  2. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 22, 2013
  3. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 22, 2013
  5. Jeff KingNov 22, 2013
  6. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  7. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 22, 2013
  8. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  9. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 22, 2013
  11. Jens LehmannNov 22, 2013
  12. Sergey SharybinNov 22, 2013
  13. Heiko VoigtNov 22, 2013
  14. Jonathan NiederNov 22, 2013
  15. Jens LehmannNov 23, 2013
  16. Heiko VoigtNov 24, 2013
  17. Jens LehmannNov 24, 2013
  18. Sergey SharybinNov 25, 2013
  19. Heiko VoigtNov 25, 2013
  20. Sergey SharybinNov 25, 2013
  21. Heiko VoigtNov 25, 2013
  22. 0/4 less ignorance of submodules for ignore=allHeiko Voigt, Dec 4, 2013
  23. 1/4 disable complete ignorance of submodules for index <-> HEAD diffHeiko Voigt, Dec 4, 2013
  24. 2/4 fix 'git add' to skip submodules configured as ignoredHeiko Voigt, Dec 4, 2013
  25. 3/4 teach add -f option for ignored submodulesHeiko Voigt, Dec 4, 2013
  26. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2013
  27. Heiko VoigtDec 9, 2013
  28. 4/4 always show committed submodules in summary after commitHeiko Voigt, Dec 4, 2013
  29. Heiko VoigtDec 4, 2013
  30. Junio C HamanoDec 4, 2013
  31. Heiko VoigtDec 4, 2013
  32. Jens LehmannDec 5, 2013
  33. Heiko VoigtDec 9, 2013
  34. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2013
  35. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2013
  36. Jens LehmannNov 26, 2013
  37. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2013
  38. Jonathan NiederNov 26, 2013
  39. Junio C HamanoNov 26, 2013
  40. disable complete ignorance of submodules for index <-> HEAD diffHeiko Voigt, Nov 23, 2013
  41. Sergey SharybinNov 25, 2013
  42. Heiko VoigtNov 28, 2013
  43. disable complete ignorance of submodules for index <-> HEAD diffHeiko Voigt, Nov 29, 2013
  44. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 23, 2013
  45. Jens LehmannNov 23, 2013
  46. Heiko VoigtNov 24, 2013
  47. Junio C HamanoNov 25, 2013
  48. Heiko VoigtNov 29, 2013
  49. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 23, 2013
  50. Ramkumar RamachandraNov 22, 2013
  51. Jens LehmannNov 22, 2013

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