Is there away to make git status to follow the ignore rules in .gitmodules? Alternatively, can you specify all instead of dirty for ignore-submodules?

[patenteng]

Currently, the command git status --ignore-submodules=dirty is used when displaying the git status. This ignores explicitly specified ignore rules in the .gitmodules file for each module.

Is there a way to make the git status follow the rules in .gitmodules. This will be the equivalent of git status. Alternatively, can you specify all instead of dirty for ignore-submodules?

I think the option is specified here, but I'm not sure.

rg GIT_SUBMODULE_IGNORE
gitstatus/src/repo.cc
280:  opt.ignore_submodules = GIT_SUBMODULE_IGNORE_DIRTY;

[patenteng]

Yes, that's the line to get the functionality I was after. Using GIT_SUBMODULE_IGNORE_ALL instead is the equivalent of git status --ignore-submodules=all. However, this breaks the old behavior. Now changes in the submodules will now not show up in the Git status.

If anyone else wants to ignore the submodules, here is a patch.

cat submodules_ignore.patch
diff --git a/gitstatus/src/repo.cc b/gitstatus/src/repo.cc
index a81594a4..dded0a61 100644
--- a/gitstatus/src/repo.cc
+++ b/gitstatus/src/repo.cc
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ void Repo::StartDirtyScan(const std::vector<const char*>& paths) {
   } else {
     opt.flags |= GIT_DIFF_ENABLE_FAST_UNTRACKED_DIRS;
   }
-  opt.ignore_submodules = GIT_SUBMODULE_IGNORE_DIRTY;
+  opt.ignore_submodules = GIT_SUBMODULE_IGNORE_ALL;
   opt.notify_cb = +[](const git_diff* diff, const git_diff_delta* delta,
                       const char* matched_pathspec, void* payload) -> int {
     if (delta->status == GIT_DELTA_CONFLICTED) return GIT_DIFF_DELTA_DO_NOT_INSERT;

I am on Arch and installed Powerline from the AUR. Here is a patch to apply the above patch to the AUR package.

cat pkgbuild.patch
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index ab0907b..f1ba2c4 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -16,14 +16,22 @@ optdepends=(
 install=zsh-theme-powerlevel10k.install
 provides=("zsh-theme-powerlevel10k")
 conflicts=("zsh-theme-powerlevel10k")
-source=('powerlevel10k::git+https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git')
-md5sums=('SKIP')
+source=("powerlevel10k::git+file://$(pwd)/../powerlevel10k" "submodules_ignore.patch")
+sha512sums=(
+  'SKIP'
+  '4335f8b7bfdd78150e294ebea3c41b37da474995314bc1fad05d527d8a76a3f19a96f65357dcb2d25df42c548240e638e7213cf1c460a6622d0b065e471f1164'
+)
 
 pkgver() {
   cd "$srcdir/powerlevel10k"
   printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 }
 
+prepare() {
+  cd $srcdir/powerlevel10k
+  patch -p1 -i $srcdir/submodules_ignore.patch
+}
+
 build() {
   cd "$srcdir/powerlevel10k/gitstatus"
   ./build -w

I use yay for my AUR helper. To patch and install Powerline I used the following commands.

# Install from the AUR
yay -S zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git

# Copy the git repositories
git clone ~/.cache/yay/zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git
git clone ~/.cache/yay/zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git/powerlevel10k

# Patch
cd zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/powerline/pkgbuild.patch
ln -s ~/.dotfiles/powerline/submodules_ignore.patch
patch -p1 -i pkgbuild.patch

# Install
makepkg -si
sudo pacman -Rsc zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git-debug

# Clean
cd ..
rm -rf zsh-theme-powerlevel10k-git powerlevel10k

Hope this is helpful.