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authorLibravatar Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2019-11-23 05:54:28 +0000
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-11-24 13:52:29 +0900
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doc: document 'git submodule status --cached'
'git submodule status --cached' reports the SHAs recorded in the index of the superproject, instead of the SHAs that are checked out in the submodule. Signed-off-by: Manish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]::
does not match the SHA-1 found in the index of the containing
repository and `U` if the submodule has merge conflicts.
+
+If `--cached` is specified, this command will instead print the SHA-1
+recorded in the superproject for each submodule.
++
If `--recursive` is specified, this command will recurse into nested
submodules, and show their status as well.
+