Hello, I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. Case : Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore that adding a line in .gitmodules But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone because of typos ) Question: 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in its directory) If this feature is feasible , how do i know if its developed ( awaiting merge ) or can I build the patch ? Regards, Prashant