Git diff says subproject is dirty

Question

I have just run a git diff, and I am getting the following output for all of my approx 10 submodules

diff --git a/.vim/bundle/bufexplorer b/.vim/bundle/bufe         


        

Answer 1

EDIT: This answer (and most of the others) are obsolete; see Devpool's answer instead.

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Originally, there were no config options to make "git diff --ignore-submodules" and "git status --ignore-submodules" the global default (but see also Setting git default flags on commands). An alternative is to set a default ignore config option on each individual submodule you want to ignore (for both git diff and git status), either in the .git/config file (local only) or .gitmodules (will be versioned by git). For example:

[submodule "foobar"]
    url = git@bitbucket.org:foo/bar.git
    ignore = untracked

ignore = untracked to ignore just untracked files, ignore = dirty to also ignore modified files, and ignore = all to ignore also commits. There's apparently no way to wildcard it for all submodules.