Hi, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > One of my most frequent mistake is to commit undesired submodules > changes when doing "commit -a", and I have seen a number of people doing > the same mistake in various projects. I wish there would be a config to > change this default behaviour. Can you say more about the overall workflow this is part of? What causes the submodules to change state in the first place here? [...] > --- a/builtin/commit.c > +++ b/builtin/commit.c [...] > @@ -1475,6 +1478,11 @@ static int git_commit_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb) > return 0; > } > > + if (!strcmp(k, "commit.all-ignore-submodules")) { > + commit_all_ignore_submodules = git_config_bool(k, v); > + return 0; > + } nit, less important than the comment above: no other config items use this naming scheme. We'd have to come up with a different name if we want to pursue this. If I want to disable this setting for a particular "git commit" invocation, how do I do that? Typically when adding new settings, we add them first as command-line options and then as a separate followup can introduce configuration to change the defaults. To summarize: I'm interested in hearing more about the overall workflow so we can make the standard behavior without any special configuration work better for it, too. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan