From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:22:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status&commit: Teach them to show commits of modified submodules.
Message-ID: <7vwsswjeom.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46dff0320711040517r6da5d7aaid849ff06df1b5bb6@mail.gmail.com>

"Yin Ping" <pkufranky@gmail.com> writes:

> However, in some cases these messages are helpful. And a third kind of
> cases is that people care about only part of all submodules.
>
> So, maybe some an switch can be used to turn this on or off (default
> off)?

I personally think that is overengineering.  Isn't having/not
having the submodule directory cloned a good enough indicator
of which submodules are interested in by the user?