Tell git to ignore untracked content in submodules?

Question

Currently if I run git status, I get a bunch of stuff like this:

On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
  (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)

        modified:   projects/submodule1 (untracked content)
        modified:   projects/submod2 (untracked content)
        modified:   projects/submodule3 (new commits, modified content, untracked content)
        modified:   projects/submodule4 (modified content, untracked content)
        ...

I do care about the new commits and the modified content, but a lot of these submodule generate their own crap (like build files, etc), and I don't care about any of that (if it's important, I should be adding it to the submodule and tracking it). Is there a way to get git to ignore untracked content in submodules, but not new commits or modified content?

There's an exact same question with answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5126765/how-to-get-rid-of-git-submodules-untracked-status — Mudassir Razvi, Nov 27 '15 at 04:19
Thanks @MudassirRazvi, I've voted to close this as a duplicate. — naught101, Nov 27 '15 at 04:55
Since there are no answers yet, you could just delete this question. — 1615903, Nov 27 '15 at 08:02

Tell git to ignore untracked content in submodules?

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