Re: [PATCH 0/6] Initial subproject support (RFC?)

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 11, 2007, 08:42 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704110142l377231d7j85285a87ef73ce41@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070411083236.GG21701@admingilde.org>

On 4/11/07, Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> wrote:

> > The other thing which will be missed a lot (I miss it that much)
> > is a subproject-recursive git-commit and git-status.
>
> git-status should really point out if a subproject has any changes,

Only if I want it to. HEAD change check (which is cheap enough to be done unconditionally) can be done always.

> But for commit it really does not make any sense.  The commit in the
> submodule is totally independent to the commit in the supermodule.

Right. Perhaps not a commit in submodule but a recursive check for working directory changes in submodules. So that you can make that you don't make a superproject commit which cannot be resolved to what you had in all the working directories:

  git commit -a --check-clean-subprojects