# How to disable Git from automatically identifying and managing embedded git repositories? 2 messages from 2021-06-01 to 2021-06-01. Participants: AndyAo, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/55813 ## AndyAo, 2021-06-01 00:26 Subject: How to disable Git from automatically identifying and managing embedded git repositories? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/c4d32a7b-94c5-b613-ae5e-9c18b1ffa627%40gmail.com ``` When I upgraded Git from 2.24.1.windows.2 to 2.29.2.windows.2, I noticed that the embedded git repository is recognized in `git status`, and if I use `git add .` will manage the embedded git repository directly as a submodule, instead of just ignoring them, which is the behavior I want. How do I turn this off? Thanks. ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2021-06-01 01:33 Subject: Re: How to disable Git from automatically identifying and managing embedded git repositories? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqczt6v06h.fsf%40gitster.g In-Reply-To: ``` AndyAo writes: > When I upgraded Git from 2.24.1.windows.2 to 2.29.2.windows.2, I > noticed that the embedded git repository is recognized in `git > status`, and if I use `git add .` will manage the embedded git > repository directly as a submodule, instead of just ignoring them, > which is the behavior I want. > > How do I turn this off? You can use the ignore mechanism to exclude it and "git add ." would not touch it. In my checkout of the git repository, I have a separate copy of the same git repository and checked out at the path "Meta/". In the upper-level repository, I have "/Meta" in .git/info/exclude (among other private-ignore patterns), and that would keep it out of the main repository's index even with "git add ." (not that I'd ever use "add everything", which I do not think have any place in my workflow). This is done without using .gitignore because it is nobody else's business that I use such a "strange" setup and use the pathname "Meta/" for it (hence project participants do not have to know about it). ```