"working changes" detection doesn't work w/ submodules about dapp

[dbrock]

Wait, can you explain what you did again?

I know submodules can be tricky so I agree we should try to be as helpful as possible

[nmushegian]

Untracked changes within submodules appear in the "changes not staged for commit" area as dirname (untracked content), which you use to detect if we should stop actions. But this is a special submodule state that really should be treated like a clean stage.

for example:

dapp install ds-auth
touch file.txt
dapp install ds-note   # all good, file.txt is not tracked yet so dapp doesn't block me
touch ds-auth/file.txt
git add file.txt && git commit -am "clear working state in parent (added file.txt)"
dapp install ds-token   # blocked by ds-auth/file.txt - also not tracked, and it's even less relevant

[dbrock]

Ah I see, yeah I guess what you're saying makes sense!