Merge commit 'b319ef7' into jc/maint-fix-test-perm

* commit 'b319ef7': (8132 commits)
  Add a small patch-mode testing library
  git-apply--interactive: Refactor patch mode code
  t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis
  Fix severe breakage in "git-apply --whitespace=fix"
  Update release notes for 1.6.4
  After renaming a section, print any trailing variable definitions
  Make section_name_match start on '[', and return the length on success
  send-email: detect cycles in alias expansion
  Show the presence of untracked files in the bash prompt.
  SunOS grep does not understand -C<n> nor -e
  Fix export_marks() error handling.
  git repack: keep commits hidden by a graft
  Add a test showing that 'git repack' throws away grafted-away parents
  git branch: clean up detached branch handling
  git branch: avoid unnecessary object lookups
  git branch: fix performance problem
  git svn: fix shallow clone when upstream revision is too new
  do_one_ref(): null_sha1 check is not about broken ref
  configure.ac: properly unset NEEDS_SSL_WITH_CRYPTO when sha1 func is missing
  janitor: useless checks before free
  ...

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index e9e193f008..84f60f3407 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -8,30 +8,36 @@ git-status - Show the working tree status
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-status' <options>...
+'git status' <options>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Examines paths in the working tree that has changes unrecorded
-to the index file, and changes between the index file and the
-current HEAD commit.  The former paths are what you _could_
-commit by running 'git add' before running 'git
-commit', and the latter paths are what you _would_ commit by
-running 'git commit'.
+Displays paths that have differences between the index file and the
+current HEAD commit, paths that have differences between the working
+tree and the index file, and paths in the working tree that are not
+tracked by git (and are not ignored by linkgit:gitignore[5]). The first
+are what you _would_ commit by running `git commit`; the second and
+third are what you _could_ commit by running 'git-add' before running
+`git commit`.
+
+The command takes the same set of options as 'git-commit'; it
+shows what would be committed if the same options are given to
+'git-commit'.
 
 If there is no path that is different between the index file and
-the current HEAD commit, the command exits with non-zero
-status.
-
-The command takes the same set of options as `git-commit`; it
-shows what would be committed if the same options are given to
-`git-commit`.
+the current HEAD commit (i.e., there is nothing to commit by running
+`git commit`), the command exits with non-zero status.
 
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
 The output from this command is designed to be used as a commit
-template comments, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'.
+template comment, and all the output lines are prefixed with '#'.
+
+The paths mentioned in the output, unlike many other git commands, are
+made relative to the current directory if you are working in a
+subdirectory (this is on purpose, to help cutting and pasting). See
+the status.relativePaths config option below.
 
 
 CONFIGURATION
@@ -42,11 +48,23 @@ mean the same thing and the latter is kept for backward
 compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables
 to colorize its output.
 
+If the config variable `status.relativePaths` is set to false, then all
+paths shown are relative to the repository root, not to the current
+directory.
+
+If `status.submodulesummary` is set to a non zero number or true (identical
+to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
+summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit
+option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]).
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+linkgit:gitignore[5]
 
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and
-Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.
+Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
 
 Documentation
 --------------
@@ -54,5 +72,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
-
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite