Git: can I suppress listing of 'modified content'/dirty submodule entries in status, diff, etc?

Question

Somewhen (around the 1.6.x releases, I think) git became aware of changes inside submodules. That only serves to annoy me:

$ git status vendor | grep modified:
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Answer 1

So git v1.7.2-rc2 has what I want:

$ git diff --ignore-submodules=dirty vendor
# no output

$ git status --ignore-submodules=dirty vendor
# On branch …
nothing to commit (working directory clean)

Building your own git howto:

# get git
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git
cd git
git checkout v1.7.2-rc2

# make git. beware of setting prefix
make configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install

# you REALLY don't want to `make doc`, use this instead
sudo make quick-install-man
sudo make quick-install-html