Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] submodule: expose the '--for-status' option of summary

Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> writes:

That makes it sound like a solution looking for a problem.

The option was added and discussed in [*1*], and it was quite clear that it was merely an implementation detail to show the same info as "git submodule summary" in a format that would fit better in the context of "git status". I doubt that anything changed since then in the past 12 years to make the option deserve more attention by the end users, but what this patch (which is the first in a 5-patch series) does may be worth doing if a later patch in the series serves as that "good use case".

On the other hand, if there is no such "good use case" example in the other changes in this series, the option can and should be kept as an implementation detail of "git status", I would think.

Thanks.

[Reference]

*1* https://lore.kernel.org/git/1205416085-23431-1-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com/