How to fetch without submodules

[CodeWenjiu]

My project has several large submodules dependencies. When using onefetch, it includes their code in the statistics, making it difficult to observe my project’s actual codebase size. How can I explicitly exclude submodules from being counted?

[spenserblack]

You can use the --exclude option to exclude certain paths. Use --help for more info.

Also, since the code is currently detected via tokei, a .tokeignore file should work. A more generic .ignore file should work, too. Same format as .gitignore.

[CodeWenjiu]

Thanks for the suggestion! It’s helpful, but I wonder if adding an option to automatically ignore submodules (by parsing .gitmodules) would make it even more convenient. :)

[spenserblack]

I agree that automatically ignoring submodules (or opting in via a CLI option) would be nice. Feel free to raise a feature request issue 🙂

All submodules have a .git file (not directory) AFAIK. So detecting that file can be an easier (but more naive) implementation than parsing .gitmodules.