On 06-08-2020 22:10, Shourya Shukla wrote: > The 'for-status' option is used to compute the summary of submodule(s) > in a superproject by skipping the ignored submdules i.e., those with > 'submodule.<name>.ignore' set to 'all' in the '.gitmodules' or > '.git/config', with the latter taking precedence over the former. > > The option was introduced in d0f64dd44d (git-submodule summary: > --for-status option, 2008-04-12), refined in 3ba7407b8b (submodule > summary: ignore --for-status option, 2013-09-06) and finally perfected > in 927b26f87a (submodule: don't print status output with ignore=all, > 2013-09-01). But, it was not mentioned in the 'git submodule' > Documentation. > > Expose the '--for-status' option accepted by the command 'git submodule > summary'. > I've had one concern about exposing '--for-status'. As of now, the name of the option has no relation with the behaviour that we get as a consequence. So long, the option has been internal and this wasn't a problem. Now that we're considering to expose it in the docs, usage and autocomplete, I would say it should be done after renaming it appropriately given that it's easy to do now than later. As to name suggestions, I really don't have any. Also, as to whether exposing this would be useful at all, I really don't know. -- Sivaraam
