Re: diff.ignoreSubmoudles config setting broken?

From: Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 9, 2017, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <CAHGBnuNv--R3FMpRWsvhFJU5_R2Rji=nCjqQsuXrK0UU30eByw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8tof32x9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Between these two:
>
>         git -c diff.ignoresubmodules=all diff
>         git diff --ignore-submodules=all
>
> one difference is that the latter disables reading extra config from
> .gitmodules (!) while the former makes the command honor it.
>
> This comes from aee9c7d6 ("Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config
> option for diff and status", 2010-08-06), which is ancient and
> predates even v2.0, so if you see problems with v2.12 or v2.11 but
> not with older ones, that would rule out this theory.

Thanks for reminding me of possible settings .gitmodules. Indeed I have

[submodule "scanners/scancode-toolkit"]
        path = scanners/scancode-toolkit
        url = https://github.com/sschuberth/scancode-toolkit.git
        ignore = untracked

in .gitmodules, which explains why globally setting "diff.ignoreSubmodules" to "all" had no effect.

-- 
Sebastian Schuberth