Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > By the way, I am surprised that "diff.ignoreSubmodules=all" is > abused by anybody that way. It depends on the implementation detail > that we internally use the diff machinery to find which paths are > not modified, and I would even say it is a BUG that "commit -a" pays > attention to the configuration variable that way. I would recommend > strongly to stay away from that approach or your tools will get > broken when the bug gets fixed. Sorry, but I take this part back. This is an explicitly documented feature of the variable, so users and scripts alike should be able to depend on. It still feels like a layering violation, but it is too late to "fix" it now.
