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diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index a051b1e8f3..9a376886a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ Consider enabling untracked cache and split index if supported (see `git update-index --untracked-cache` and `git update-index --split-index`), Otherwise you can use `no` to have `git status` return more quickly without showing untracked files. +All usual spellings for Boolean value `true` are taken as `normal` +and `false` as `no`. The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. @@ -245,11 +247,12 @@ U U unmerged, both modified .... Submodules have more state and instead report - M the submodule has a different HEAD than - recorded in the index - m the submodule has modified content - ? the submodule has untracked files -since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added + +* 'M' = the submodule has a different HEAD than recorded in the index +* 'm' = the submodule has modified content +* '?' = the submodule has untracked files + +This is since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added via `git add` in the superproject to prepare a commit. 'm' and '?' are applied recursively. For example if a nested submodule @@ -308,7 +311,7 @@ Line Notes ------------------------------------------------------------ # branch.oid <commit> | (initial) Current commit. # branch.head <branch> | (detached) Current branch. -# branch.upstream <upstream_branch> If upstream is set. +# branch.upstream <upstream-branch> If upstream is set. # branch.ab +<ahead> -<behind> If upstream is set and the commit is present. ------------------------------------------------------------ @@ -471,7 +474,7 @@ again, because your configuration may already be caching `git status` results, so it could be faster on subsequent runs. * The `--untracked-files=no` flag or the - `status.showUntrackedfiles=false` config (see above for both): + `status.showUntrackedFiles=no` config (see above for both): indicate that `git status` should not report untracked files. This is the fastest option. `git status` will not list the untracked files, so you need to be careful to remember if @@ -501,7 +504,7 @@ results, so it could be faster on subsequent runs. usually worth the additional size. * `core.untrackedCache=true` and `core.fsmonitor=true` or - `core.fsmonitor=<hook_command_pathname>` (see + `core.fsmonitor=<hook-command-pathname>` (see linkgit:git-update-index[1]): enable both the untracked cache and FSMonitor features and only search directories that have been modified since the previous `git status` command. This |