On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But imagine that "git status" learns to recurse into submodules and run > "git status" inside them. Surely we would want the submodule repos to > also avoid taking any unnecessary locks? You can teach Git to recurse into submodules already at home, just 'git config status.submoduleSummary none'. ;) It occurs to me that the config name is badly choosen, as it stores an argument for git status --ignore-submodules[=mode]