Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > C) ls-files -o should NOT traverse into untracked submodules, but > should at least report their directory name. I think this probably is the most sensible. The top-level directory of a working tree of a repository other than the current one may exist in the working tree. It is very tempting to declare that, unless we know it is a submodule that has the current repository as its superproject, we should just treat it as a normal subdirectory without *any* files tracked by the current repository, which would mean that we pretend that the ".git/" in that subdirectory is not any special---but that would obviously make things quite messy (e.g. our "ls-files -o" would descend into the other project's working tree and even in its .git/ directory), so we need to special case a directory that has ".git/" in it, whether it is a submodule for our current repository or not. Thanks for working on this. I agree that dir.c traversal has become messier and messier, especially with its interaction with submodules.
