From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 20:09:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaUTdFi5LkgR6zKeb+CH8vpfPQRZf6bFqRfYY-YXy_TNA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170922042539.fs37bauiabfqcjx5@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

>
> But imagine that "git status" learns to recurse into submodules and run
> "git status" inside them. Surely we would want the submodule repos to
> also avoid taking any unnecessary locks?

You can teach Git to recurse into submodules already at home,
just 'git config status.submoduleSummary none'. ;)

It occurs to me that the config name is badly choosen, as it stores
an argument for git status --ignore-submodules[=mode]