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diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index def635f578..335f312335 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -41,6 +41,14 @@ OPTIONS --long:: Give the output in the long-format. This is the default. +-v:: +--verbose:: + In addition to the names of files that have been changed, also + show the textual changes that are staged to be committed + (i.e., like the output of `git diff --cached`). If `-v` is specified + twice, then also show the changes in the working tree that + have not yet been staged (i.e., like the output of `git diff`). + -u[<mode>]:: --untracked-files[=<mode>]:: Show untracked files. @@ -58,7 +66,10 @@ When `-u` option is not used, untracked files and directories are shown (i.e. the same as specifying `normal`), to help you avoid forgetting to add newly created files. Because it takes extra work to find untracked files in the filesystem, this mode may take some -time in a large working tree. You can use `no` to have `git status` +time in a large working tree. +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. + The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles @@ -77,7 +88,7 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1]. only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was the behavior before 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules (and suppresses the output of submodule summaries when the config option - `status.submodulesummary` is set). + `status.submoduleSummary` is set). --ignored:: Show ignored files as well. @@ -116,7 +127,7 @@ In the short-format, the status of each path is shown as where `PATH1` is the path in the `HEAD`, and the " `-> PATH2`" part is shown only when `PATH1` corresponds to a different path in the -index/worktree (i.e. the file is renamed). The 'XY' is a two-letter +index/worktree (i.e. the file is renamed). The `XY` is a two-letter status code. The fields (including the `->`) are separated from each other by a @@ -125,7 +136,7 @@ characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with interior special characters backslash-escaped. -For paths with merge conflicts, `X` and 'Y' show the modification +For paths with merge conflicts, `X` and `Y` show the modification states of each side of the merge. For paths that do not have merge conflicts, `X` shows the status of the index, and `Y` shows the status of the work tree. For untracked paths, `XY` are `??`. Other status @@ -207,7 +218,7 @@ 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 +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 for the long format and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note |