Re: [Outreachy] Blog Post Submission

>
> Hi Sangeeta,
>
> On 03/12/20 4:27 pm, Sangeeta wrote:
> >
> > First of all thanks for the feedback! I have made the changes.
> >
> > Secondly, regarding the microproject, it is still under review and I
> > read that in the mail[1](What's cooking in Git)(you can search for
> > "untracked" in the mail), Junio states that it is left on some changes
> > which I have already made in patch 7[2]. What is stopping me to reply
> > to that mail is that I might not have answers to some of the questions
> > that Danh asked[3](Should this change applicable to diff-index,
> > diff-files and other plumbing commands?) because I don't know whether
> > that would be breaking changes or not. I tried to test it in my local
> > and I found everything was working fine as expected but I don't know
> > the reason for that nor do I know the reason for whether things should
> > break or not. >
>
> Thanks for checking. Don't hesitate to reply to Danh's e-mail with what
> you've done and what you're not certain about. It's a good way to move
> things forward. Also, you could try Cc-ing people who seem to have
> worked in the diff code recently. For instance using `git log` to see
> the people who've modified the diff.c and `wt-status.c` recently, I
> could observe that:
>
>      Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
>
>      Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
>
>      Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
>
> are some contributes who might be able to provide you some inputs.
>
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqtut6qf7q.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20201110083900.88161-1-sangunb09@gmail.com/
> > [3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/X6rJWpuUHz1qHYZL@danh.dev/
> >
> > To give you a context of my changes, I have made
> > `--ignore-submodules=untracked` the default for `git diff` when there
> > is no configuration variable or command-line option, to ensure that
> > the command doesn't give '-dirty' suffix to a submodule whose working
> > tree has untracked files. This was done to make it consistent with
> > `git describe`. For this, I had to make a global variable to check
> > whether ignoreSubmodules is set or not in the user config so that it
> > doesn't override that. Also to ensure that `git status` remains the
> > same, I have made `--ignore-submodules=none` the default for `git
> > status` so that the user doesn't end up deleting a submodule that has
> > uncommitted (untracked) files.
> >
>
> Also, thanks for the helpful summary!
>
> --
> Sivaraam