.git/info/exclude replacement for git submodule?

Question

I'm having python script to download dependencies for my library (that is extracted as git repository) and it adds lines to .git/info/exclude for git repository. But when it's extracted as submodule no .git/info/exclude file exists and i still need to exclude some paths without adding them to '.gitignore'. Any change to do it?

repo
├─.git
│ └─info
│   └─exclude
└─mylibrary (as_submodule)
  ├─extract_deps.py
  └─some_dep  (created by `extract_deps.py` and should be excluded) 

In the picture above i need to exclude some_dep from git changes.

Adding mylibrary/some_dep to repo/.git/info/exclude does not help since git status still shows that mylibrary/some_dep is added and untracked.

Answer 1

Seems that git adds another structure for modules in mainrepo/.git/modules/path-to-submodule/info/exclude.

Adding path to your model:

    repo
    ├─.git
    │ ├─info
    │ ├─└─exclude
    │ └─modules
    │   └─mylibrary
    │     └─info
    │       └─exclude (for mylibrary module)
    └─mylibrary (as_submodule)
      ├─extract_deps.py
      └─some_dep  (created by extract_deps.py and should be excluded) 
    

Hope this solved your issue! It definitely helped me out.