one-com/chef_diff

Chef context aware Git repo diff tool

chef_diff's Issues

Support for git modules?

First, thank you for providing this module. It has proven to be very beneficial.

We currently have several server clusters each having their own chef organization.
Example: Dev, QA, Beta, Stage, Prod.

To allow customization of environments, we separated them into individual git repositories which maintain data_bags and environments per cluster.
Example: chef-dev, chef-qa, chef-beta, etc.

All cluster repositories share the chef-cookbooks and chef-roles repositories which are include as git submodules.

Example: chef-dev repo has
data_bags/
environments/
cookbooks/ ==> submodule to chef-cookbooks
roles/ == submodule to chef-roles

I was able to 'trick' chef_diff into pulling the repository recursively by specifying url as --recursively <repoURL>

Unfortunately I don't have a 'trick' for updating submodules which requires a separate command git submodule update --recursive --remote

What's the chances chef_diff could be updated to become submodule 'aware'? If configuration uses_submodules true, then use --recursive on clone and execute the additional submodule command for updates. I would also assume the submodule revisions must be tracked separately.

Thoughts?