Hi, On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote: > Ping Yin schrieb: > > git status/commit just treats submodules as ordinary files when > > reporting status changes. However, one may also wonder how submodules > > change (the commits). > > > > This commit teaches git status/commit to additionally show commit > > summary of user-cared (i.e. checked out) modified submodules since > > HEAD (or HEAD^ if --amend option is on). For submodules deleted or > > initially added, commit summary are not shown. > > In general, I like the idea (as I've already pointed out). > > But at this time git-commit is about to be made a builtin, and since > your implementation contains a lot of non-portable constructs ($'', >&) > and a new dependency on awk (and, hence, has little chances of being > accepted), I suggest that you stay tuned, and implement this in the > forth-coming builtin-commit.c. I agree. > > A configuration variable 'submodule.status' is used to turn this > > summary behaviour on or off (default off). Also --submodule and > > --no-submodule options are added. > > There is already 'status.color', I suggest the configuration to become > 'status.submoduleSummary'. You could make this variable even a numeric one. Saying how many lines you want to have maximally (-1 meaning unlimited). Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html