From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:22:37 GMT
Subject: Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf1001061022j57981a90x249f82c6dfd2f92d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vljgbw21x.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 1/7/10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>  > You would need to rewrite file paths so that files in submodules are
>  > also relative to the same directory as files in supermodule (I tried
>  > to do that with GIT_WORK_TREE and needed to change a bit). Or you
>  > could show each "git status" output separately, which does not look as
>  > nice as the former in my opinion.
>
>
> You could show output separately if you want, but I think that is a
>  separate issue.
>
>  I was envisioning that the "git status" in submodule will be run with its
>  recent --porcelain option, and "git status" or "git commit" would read it
>  to postprocess and incorporate into its own output.

Nice option! I had to call a few "git diff" for that just because I
did not catch up with recent Git development :-(
-- 
Duy