On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:09:32PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote: > 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] Ah, thanks. I _thought_ we could already do that but when I went looking for the standard --recursive option I couldn't find it. So yes, I would think we would want this option to apply recursively in that case, even when we cross repository boundaries. -Peff
