Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 1/7/10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@xxxxxx> writes: >> >> >> > Am 06.01.2010 02:04, schrieb Junio C Hamano: >> >> After all we _were_ in agreement. We both think the user should be told >> >> about untracked files in submodule directory when inspecting the status to >> >> make a commit in the superproject. >> > >> > Thanks. So i'll take a closer look at the diff core (but i suspect i'll >> > need some time until i can come up with some patches because i don't know >> > this part of git very well). >> >> >> I don't see a direct connection between "the user should be told about >> untracked in the submodule before committing" and diffcore. It is just >> the matter of "git status" and "git commit" running another instance of >> "git status" via run_command() interface in the submodule directory, no? > > You would need to rewrite file paths so that files in submodules are > also relative to the same directory as files in supermodule (I tried > to do that with GIT_WORK_TREE and needed to change a bit). Or you > could show each "git status" output separately, which does not look as > nice as the former in my opinion. You could show output separately if you want, but I think that is a separate issue. I was envisioning that the "git status" in submodule will be run with its recent --porcelain option, and "git status" or "git commit" would read it to postprocess and incorporate into its own output. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html