On 2020-09-13 17:47:03+0700, Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2020-09-11 09:05:42-0400, Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I understand, but I would argue that such a user could easily adapt their > > script to add '--no-recurse-submodules' to their ls-files invocation if that > > is the case, no ? > > There're people still live in the past, for example those poor souls > still live in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, they don't have the luxury of using > Git with ls-files that understand --recurse-submodules and > --no-recurse-submodules. For this statement, I meant: : those poor souls that needs to write script for both old and new machine. Sorry for missing that information, and this noise. > > > So, no. I am not enthused to see this change. > > > > OK, if I'm not able to change your mind, what would you think of a separate > > config variable then, say `ls-files.recurseSubmodules` ? This would be more granular, > > so less chance of breaking existing scripts, but still provide for a way to configure > > Git to always recurse in submodules, including for 'ls-files'... > > If you're really buy into configuration and using ls-files > interactively, I think it's better to make a Git-alias instead. > > alias.ls = ls-files --recurse-submodules -- Danh
