Hi Marc, > Le 14 oct. 2020 à 06:14, Marc Sune <marcdevel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > Hello all, > > First, thank you to the community for the great work. Worth saying it > from time to time, I think. > > I am dealing with a couple of big repositories that use git > submodules. They have nested submodules, and some of them are pretty > huge. I came across: > > git diff --submodule=diff > > Which is very handy for creating some tooling, but it's obviously slow > - in the order of tens of minutes in my case - for big diffs. I was > only interested in the list files that changed, in this particular > case, but: > > git diff --stat --submodule=diff > > doesn't seem to honour `--submodule=diff` and it doesn't go into the > submodule(s) nor recurses, of course. Other options like `--dirstat` > or `--name-only` seem to behave the same way. > > I've tried this v2.20.1 and the HEAD of master (d4a392452e) with the > same results. Is this a missing feature, a bug or is it just the > intended behaviour? > > Regards > marc This would indeed be useful. It's a missing feature, and so intended behaviour for the moment, I would say. It was discussed recently on the list [1] : [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20200924063829.GA1851751@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/t/#u Cheers, Philippe.
