From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 20:53:45 GMT
Subject: Re: Git issues with submodules
Message-ID: <xmqq61rgxkx2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131122215454.GA4952@sandbox-ub>

Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net> writes:

> What I think needs fixing here first is that the ignore setting should not
> apply to any diffs between HEAD and index. IMO, it should only apply
> to the diff between worktree and index.

Hmph.  How about "git diff $commit", the diff between the worktree and
a named commit (which may or may not be HEAD)?

> When we have that the user does not see the submodule changed when
> normally working. But after doing git add . the change to the submodule
> should be shown in status and diff regardless of the configuration.

Yes, that sounds sensible.