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Add button to filter submodules out of Files
I'm working on a big enterprise project where there are dozens of submodules that don't concern me. I don't completely understand how submodules work in Git and I'm hoping to spend the remaining of my life on Earth without having to learn that. A bunch of these submodules are empty, a bunch are initialized. I keep seeing them in Files and it's distracting because there are dozens of them, and I want to just see files that I change.
At some point I tried initializing them or something, but then it breaks some of our development scripts. Please, can we just have a button to hide submodules?
Customer support service by UserEcho
You can initialize them and then mark them as ignored.
Hi Thomas,
How do I mark as ignored?
Sorry, I meant Deactivate. You can find it in the context menu.
That works. Note though that it took me a long time to deactivate them all, because (1) you can't select multiple ones and deactivate them all, (2) there's no mnemonic for deactivate and (3) there's a delay of 2 seconds after each deactivate action and you can't deactivate another one at that time.
Thanks though, this solves my problem.
Hello Thomas, my problem is the same. "Deactivate" works, but we have a lot of submodules and it takes a long time to deactivate all of them. A multi-selection would be great. A filter that hides uninitialized submodules would be even better.