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orgads
orgads

Reputation: 696

Ignore submodule dirty status on commit

I have a repository with a submodule. For me, this submodule is read-only, so I'm using submodule.Module.ignore=dirty.

This works fine for 'git status', but when I commit, the whole submodule is scanned and in git's comments I can see that it's dirty.

Is there a way to avoid this?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2142

Answers (3)

Flimm
Flimm

Reputation: 150633

You probably want to edit the .git/info/exclude file, to add a pattern to be ignored. But for a submodule, this won't work. Instead, you should edit .git/submodule_foo/info/exclude, from the root of the Git repo.

This is because, in newer versions of Git, the path submodule_foo/.git is a file, not a directory. Its contents lets us know where the .git files for the submodule are:

gitdir: ../.git/modules/submodule_foo

Upvotes: -2

orgads
orgads

Reputation: 696

Solved upstream in commit 8f6811efed5451c72aa

Upvotes: 1

Eric
Eric

Reputation: 3172

If you really never want to see changes to the submodule, you can add a line to .git/info/exclude inside the submodule with a '*' pattern.

This will result in the submodule always reporting itself as clean, regardless of what has changed.

echo "*" >> path/to/submodule/.git/info/exclude

Upvotes: 2

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