On 11 August 2014 21:54, Edward Diener
Is this normal ? It looks like git is saying that the submodules are modified because they have untracked content. I thought that if you have untracked files in a working directory git does not act like you have modified anything since the untracked files are not part of the local repository. Am I missing something here or does git actually assume changes have been made merely because untracked files exist in a working directory folder.
It normally does that, probably under the assumption that any differences could be important. You can use 'git status --ignore-submodules=untracked' to stop it doing that. And to set it permanently you can use 'git config --global diff.ignoreSubmodules untracked'. I don't know what the equivalent is for Tortoise Git.