Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add optional parameters to the diff option "--ignore-submodules"

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > I agree that the basic reason for the default to check for dirty and 
> > untracked files is sound.
> >
> > It is not your (Jens') fault that this does not integrate well into the 
> > Git context, and that users of the submodule feature were punished that 
> > heavily (just to reiterate, if anybody missed that number, the time on 
> > "git status" -- or for that matter, "git diff" -- went up by >4500%. In 
> > English words, that is four-thousand five hundred percent, and that is 
> > just a lower bound).
> >
> > So I would actually argue (being a real submodule user, not just an 
> > imaginary one) that the default for dirty checking in the submodules 
> > should stay.
> 
> Let me make sure I understand.  You repeated three times that you suffered
> big time spending too many cycles due to extra checks (compared with older
> behaviour of not checking submodule working tree at all), but you would
> recommend the default to be the expensive one?