Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk

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On 1/4/10, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> The real problem is that submodules in the current form are not very well
>  designed.  For example, a submodule being at a different commit than in
>  the superproject's index is not as fatal as the submodule having changes.
>
>  So in the long run, IMHO a proper redesign of the submodules would not
>  make only a little sense (it does not help, though, that those who
>  implemented and furthered the current approach over other discussed
>  approaches do not use submodules themselves -- not even now).
>
>  In ths short run, we can paper over the shortcomings of the submodules by
>  introducing a command line option "--include-submodules" to
>  update-refresh, diff-files and diff-index, though.

Incidentally I was just drafting git-super.sh it see how far it goes.
The goal was to implement some cross-module operations over time. "git
super status", "git super commit" and others could be handy.
-- 
Duy
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