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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-status.txt6
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index e75434b3ef..5ca09aed90 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1743,6 +1743,16 @@ submodule.<name>.update::
URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See
linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
+submodule.<name>.ignore::
+ Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
+ a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
+ modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
+ takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
+ recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
+ let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
+ Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
+ submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
+
tar.umask::
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 2371262b10..9cf7506626 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -330,7 +330,11 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
- either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When
+ either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default
+ Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+ untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+ in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+ 'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1]. When
"untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified
content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 2fd054c104..a7a5d79416 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ specified.
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be
- either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. When
+ either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default.
+ Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+ untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+ in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+ 'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1]. When
"untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified
content). Using "dirty" ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules,