Git untrack submodule from git status#
When we have submodules in a git repo, even if we add the submodules' folders into the .gitignore file, these submodules folders are still tracked from the git status output.
Method 1: .gitmodules file#
There're several methods to ignore it, one of them is in .gitmodules file, add following line ignore = dirty under each submodule, example:
[submodule "bundle/fugitive"]
path = bundle/fugitive
url = git://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive.git
ignore = dirty
Method 2: switch --ignore-submodules=dirty#
Another method is to use the swicth --ignore-submodules=dirty of git status (available from git version 1.7.2) and create an alias to shorten the typing.
--ignore-submodules[=
] Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes.
can be either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the ignore option in git-config[1] or gitmodules[5]. When "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules, only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was the behavior before 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules (and suppresses the output of submodule summaries when the config option status.submoduleSummary is set).