github should have some sort of support for .gitmodules

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Would be helpful if github had some sort of handling for .gitmodules.
In my case I made forks for all the modules that I use in my project and I refer to them via relative path:

...
[submodule "ext/openssl"]
	path = ext/openssl
	url = ../openssl-bin.git
	branch = bin/openssl-1.1.1s
	shallow = true
[submodule "ext/curl"]
	path = ext/curl
	url = ../curl.git
	branch = min/curl-8.6.0
	shallow = true
[submodule "ext/flat_hash_map"]
	path = ext/flat_hash_map
	url = ../flat_hash_map.git
	branch = master
	shallow = true
...

In my project I have 18 submodules, from time to time I want to keep up with the remote/upstream repos, and for that I need to open each of these my 18 forks to see if the upstream is updated.

Instead of showing contents of .gitmodules like this one: https://github.com/microsoft/libHttpClient/blob/main/.gitmodules
it could show these parts of the individual repos:

Github could show if the hash that's part of the repo itself is outdated (eg if a submodule is behind referenced head or references stale/dangling hash, which happens when history gets rewritten, or a repo gets rebased). If the referenced submodule is a fork, github should also show if the fork is behind upstream. In other words, it should show state of the project relation to its submodules in the single place without manual error prone jumping and checking individual projects.