Mark untracked directories that are git repositories

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

internal/submodule/git/provider.go

@@ -387,6 +387,9 @@ func changes(ctx context.Context, dir string, entries []entry) (*submodule.Chang
 			c.Added += n.added
 			c.Removed += n.removed
 		}
+		if e.kind == submodule.ChangeUntracked && strings.HasSuffix(e.path, "/") {
+			f.Repo = initialized(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(e.path)))
+		}
 		if e.kind != submodule.ChangeRemoved {
 			if fi, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, filepath.FromSlash(e.path))); err == nil {
 				f.Modified = fi.ModTime()

internal/submodule/model.go

@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ type FileChange struct {
 	Removed   int       // removed lines
 	Binary    bool      // line counts are unknown
 	Submodule bool      // a nested submodule pointer changed
+	Repo      bool      // an untracked directory that is a git repository itself
 	Modified  time.Time // modification time of the file; zero if it doesn't exist
 }
 

internal/submodule/status.go

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func (s *Status) Issues() []Issue {
 	case WorktreeModified:
 		out = append(out, Issue{IssueChanged, LevelWarn, "uncommitted changes"})
 	case WorktreeUntracked:
-		out = append(out, Issue{IssueChanged, LevelWarn, "untracked files"})
+		out = append(out, Issue{IssueChanged, LevelWarn, s.untrackedText()})
 	}
 	return out
 }
@@ -79,3 +79,18 @@ func Walk(mods []*Submodule, fn func(*Submodule)) {
 		Walk(m.Children, fn)
 	}
 }
+
+// untrackedText words the untracked-files issue: "untracked repository" if
+// everything untracked is a git repository of its own, e.g. a clone that was
+// never added as a submodule.
+func (s *Status) untrackedText() string {
+	if s.Changes == nil || s.Changes.Total != len(s.Changes.Files) {
+		return "untracked files"
+	}
+	for _, f := range s.Changes.Files {
+		if f.Kind != ChangeUntracked || !f.Repo {
+			return "untracked files"
+		}
+	}
+	return "untracked repository"
+}

internal/submodule/status_test.go

@@ -50,3 +50,22 @@ func TestHiddenIssues(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("HiddenIssues() = %d, %v; want 2, LevelDanger", count, worst)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestUntrackedRepositoryWording(t *testing.T) {
+	repo := FileChange{Path: "lib/x/", Kind: ChangeUntracked, Repo: true}
+	file := FileChange{Path: "a.txt", Kind: ChangeUntracked}
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		files []FileChange
+		want  string
+	}{
+		{[]FileChange{repo}, "untracked repository"},
+		{[]FileChange{repo, file}, "untracked files"},
+		{[]FileChange{file}, "untracked files"},
+	} {
+		s := &Status{Worktree: WorktreeUntracked, Changes: &Changes{Total: len(c.files), Files: c.files}}
+		got := s.Issues()
+		if len(got) == 0 || got[len(got)-1].Detail != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%v: got %v, want %q", c.files, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/tui/detail/changes.go

@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ func (m Model) fileLines(files []submodule.FileChange) []string {
 		switch {
 		case f.Submodule:
 			r.counts = muted.Render("submodule")
+		case f.Repo:
+			r.counts = muted.Render("repository")
 		case f.Binary:
 			r.counts = muted.Render("bin")
 		default: