On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:54 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Between these two:
>
> git -c diff.ignoresubmodules=all diff
> git diff --ignore-submodules=all
>
> one difference is that the latter disables reading extra config from
> .gitmodules (!) while the former makes the command honor it.
>
> This comes from aee9c7d6 ("Submodules: Add the new "ignore" config
> option for diff and status", 2010-08-06), which is ancient and
> predates even v2.0, so if you see problems with v2.12 or v2.11 but
> not with older ones, that would rule out this theory.
Thanks for reminding me of possible settings .gitmodules. Indeed I have
[submodule "scanners/scancode-toolkit"]
path = scanners/scancode-toolkit
url = https://github.com/sschuberth/scancode-toolkit.git
ignore = untracked
in .gitmodules, which explains why globally setting
"diff.ignoreSubmodules" to "all" had no effect.
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Sebastian Schuberth