Re: diff.ignoreSubmoudles config setting broken?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 8, 2017, 20:54 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq8tof32x9.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbwMhL-ZnL-iYwPH=tWa8cNQbEGOYYQBw6OzFCMhOWE-w@mail.gmail.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Sebastian Schuberth
> <sschuberth@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> + Jens
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> + Jacob Keller, who touched submodule diff display code last.
> (I am thinking of fd47ae6a, diff: teach diff to display submodule
> difference with an inline diff, 2016-08-31), which is first release as
> part of v2.11.0 (that would fit your observance)

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.