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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index eecedaab6e..4656a97e60 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -355,7 +355,11 @@ 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] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. 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, |