From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:44:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin/describe.c: ignore untracked changes in submodules Message-ID: <7vfwxeeu19.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <1982035721.2791029.1284236591083.JavaMail.fmail@mwmweb045> Jens Lehmann writes: >>Jens Lehmann writes: >>> And maybe we should teach "git describe" the "--ignore-submodules" option, then >>> you could tell describe what to pass to the diff-index command. Thoughts? >> >>It is sensible to add the option, and handle_ignore_submodules_arg() call >>to grab "diff.ignoresubmodules" configuration) to the command, perhaps. > > Ok, I'll look into that and prepare a patch. Thanks; and thanks for biting my sanity check weatherbaloon ;-)