Marc-André Lureau wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 4:45 AM Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > The most common case is, I guess, when you work on different branches > that have different (compatible) versions of the submodules. Ah! This is because "git checkout" defaults to --no-recurse-submodules, which is a terrible default. Does "git config submodule.recurse true" help? If so, we can look into which it would take to flip that default. Thanks, Jonathan
