add--interactive: ignore submodule changes except HEADnd/add-i-ignore-submodules

For 'add -i' and 'add -p', the only action we can take on a dirty
submodule entry is update the index with a new value from its HEAD. The
content changes inside (from its own index, untracked files...) do not
matter, at least until 'git add -i' learns about launching a new
interactive add session inside a submodule.

Ignore all other submodules changes except HEAD. This reduces the number
of entries the user has to check through in 'git add -i', and the number
of 'no' they have to answer to 'git add -p' when dirty submodules are
present.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 49 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index 28b325d754..964c3a7542 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ sub list_modified {
 		}
 	}
 
-	for (run_cmd_pipe(qw(git diff-files --numstat --summary --raw --), @ARGV)) {
+	for (run_cmd_pipe(qw(git diff-files --ignore-submodules=dirty --numstat --summary --raw --), @ARGV)) {
 		if (($add, $del, $file) =
 		    /^([-\d]+)	([-\d]+)	(.*)/) {
 			$file = unquote_path($file);
diff --git a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
index a49c12c79b..058698df6a 100755
--- a/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
+++ b/t/t3701-add-interactive.sh
@@ -493,4 +493,52 @@ test_expect_success 'add -p works even with color.ui=always' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'setup different kinds of dirty submodules' '
+	test_create_repo for-submodules &&
+	(
+		cd for-submodules &&
+		test_commit initial &&
+		test_create_repo dirty-head &&
+		(
+			cd dirty-head &&
+			test_commit initial
+		) &&
+		cp -R dirty-head dirty-otherwise &&
+		cp -R dirty-head dirty-both-ways &&
+		git add dirty-head &&
+		git add dirty-otherwise dirty-both-ways &&
+		git commit -m initial &&
+
+		cd dirty-head &&
+		test_commit updated &&
+		cd ../dirty-both-ways &&
+		test_commit updated &&
+		echo dirty >>initial &&
+		: >untracked &&
+		cd ../dirty-otherwise &&
+		echo dirty >>initial &&
+		: >untracked
+	) &&
+	git -C for-submodules diff-files --name-only >actual &&
+	cat >expected <<-\EOF &&
+	dirty-both-ways
+	dirty-head
+	dirty-otherwise
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expected actual &&
+	git -C for-submodules diff-files --name-only --ignore-submodules=dirty >actual &&
+	cat >expected <<-\EOF &&
+	dirty-both-ways
+	dirty-head
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expected actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'status ignores dirty submodules (except HEAD)' '
+	git -C for-submodules add -i </dev/null >output &&
+	grep dirty-head output &&
+	grep dirty-both-ways output &&
+	! grep dirty-otherwise output
+'
+
 test_done