On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 03:40:16PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > If one likes the output from "submodule--helper list" so much, I > think your "ls-files" above should be the closest. There seems to > have existed some logic to squash unmerged entries down to a single > one, too (git-submodule.sh in Git 2.0.0 era has a module_list shell > function that shows what "helper list" should be doing), though. Ah, good digging. I briefly looked at the patch removing the submodule--helper version, saw the word "active", and assumed it was checking that. On closer inspection, it is just the global "active_nr" for iterating over the index. ;) So yeah, using "ls-files" is a suitable replacement for Jonas's original complaint. I'll leave it up to folks more interested and knowledgeable on submodules to discuss whether there ought to be a listing command that's more aware of gitmodules, populated fields, active flags, etc. -Peff
