From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:18:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix status of initialized but not cloned submodules
Message-ID: <xmqqv9owbw5o.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <41a835a3-3809-eda8-fb3c-30fe9fac1a24@nokia.com>

Peter Kästle <peter.kaestle@nokia.com> writes:

> ...  I mean, the outer git repo should treat the inner one as standard
> file structure and not as a submodule until the user explicitly calls
> the "git submodule add" command.  And thus "git submodule status"
> should completely skip it.  Calling "git status" in the outer repo
> should list the inner one as "untracked" or?

I agree that is a sensible expectation.