On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 7:17 PM, prashant Nidgunde <pashnidgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to this community ,so please ignore if I am asking anything silly. > > Case : > Today when I built my submodule , and did a git status , it shows as modified. > > After reading certain suggestions on web i found out that i can ignore > that adding a line in .gitmodules > > But, I had to add that line manually ( which could be errorprone > because of typos ) > > > Question: > 1. Is it feasible to build a feature like : > git submodule "zlib" ignore dirty ( which will > ignore submodule zlib when its built and dirty as it has new files in > its directory) > > If this feature is feasible , how do i know if its developed ( > awaiting merge ) or can I build the patch ? >
I don't recall such a feature, but I'm sure patches to implement something would be welcome to be reviewed! (For more information about submitting patches you could read https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/SubmittingPatches) I think having an option to automatically write this would be useful. It may already be possible to do something similar via the git config command with the -f file argument to edit the .gitmodules file (as it uses the gitconfig format for its contents). However, this is definitely not intuitive. You can read the documentation for the commands using "git help submodule" and "git help config". Patches are also definitely welcome for updates to the documentation if it's not clear. I know also that having a simpler interface to set submodules up so that they are treated as unchanged would be useful as I have projects at $dayjob which use submodules, and this is often a complaint against their use by my co-workers (who sometimes then accidentally commit re-wind updates to the submodules due to inattentiveness with use of git add . or git commit -a). Thanks, Jake
