Re: submodules' shortcomings, was Re: RFC: display dirty submodule working directory in git gui and gitk

On 1/7/10, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:
 > You would need to rewrite file paths so that files in submodules are
 > also relative to the same directory as files in supermodule (I tried
 > to do that with GIT_WORK_TREE and needed to change a bit). Or you
 > could show each "git status" output separately, which does not look as
 > nice as the former in my opinion.


You could show output separately if you want, but I think that is a
 separate issue.

 I was envisioning that the "git status" in submodule will be run with its
 recent --porcelain option, and "git status" or "git commit" would read it
 to postprocess and incorporate into its own output.

Nice option! I had to call a few "git diff" for that just because I
did not catch up with recent Git development :-(
-- 
Duy