Hi, On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 04:59:25PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: > Let's say I have a fairly simple submodule setup where I do 'git > checkout' inside the submodule to check out a different commit, so the > outer repo 'git diff' shows a submodule update. > > In that case > > git config submodule.<name>.ignore all > > makes 'git diff' or 'git commit -a' ignore the change in the outer repo, > but not 'git add -u'. > > Reading the git-config documentation if this is intentional behavior, > I'm a bit confused. It specifies that: > > - "git status" and the diff family: handle this setting > - git submodule commands: ignore this setting > > So that about 'git add -u', is it expected that it ignores this setting > as well? > > I guess either the doc should say 'git add -u' doesn't handle this > setting or 'git add -u' should handle it. Happy to try to make a patch > that does the later, but I though better ask first. :-) Have a look here for a previous discussion. https://public-inbox.org/git/20131204221659.GA7326@sandbox-ub/ I think I never got around finishing those patches, because the discussion died and there was no reply from the original poster asking for this. Maybe you could have a look at my original branch and whether that would be the behavior you expect. I had a look into porting those patches to the current master, but there are still some test failures. You can see and test my current WIP branch here: https://github.com/hvoigt/git/commits/hv/fix_ignore_all_submodules_update1 Cheers Heiko
