Re: [PATCH] git: add --no-optional-locks option

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 01:09:32PM -0700, Stefan Beller wrote:

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

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But imagine that "git status" learns to recurse into submodules and run
"git status" inside them. Surely we would want the submodule repos to
also avoid taking any unnecessary locks?

You can teach Git to recurse into submodules already at home,
just 'git config status.submoduleSummary none'. ;)

It occurs to me that the config name is badly choosen, as it stores
an argument for git status --ignore-submodules[=mode]

Ah, thanks. I _thought_ we could already do that but when I went looking
for the standard --recursive option I couldn't find it.

So yes, I would think we would want this option to apply recursively in
that case, even when we cross repository boundaries.

-Peff