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diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 725065ef2d..d70abc6afe 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -181,6 +181,17 @@ in which case `XY` are `!!`. ! ! ignored ------------------------------------------------- +Submodules have more state and instead report + M the submodule has a different HEAD than + recorded in the index + m the submodule has modified content + ? the submodule has untracked files +since modified content or untracked files in a submodule cannot be added +via `git add` in the superproject to prepare a commit. + +'m' and '?' are applied recursively. For example if a nested submodule +in a submodule contains an untracked file, this is reported as '?' as well. + If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line ## branchname tracking info @@ -210,6 +221,8 @@ field from the first filename). Third, filenames containing special characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or backslash-escaping is performed. +Any submodule changes are reported as modified `M` instead of `m` or single `?`. + Porcelain Format Version 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -322,10 +335,9 @@ When the `-z` option is given, pathnames are printed as is and without any quoting and lines are terminated with a NUL (ASCII 0x00) byte. -Otherwise, all pathnames will be "C-quoted" if they contain any tab, -linefeed, double quote, or backslash characters. In C-quoting, these -characters will be replaced with the corresponding C-style escape -sequences and the resulting pathname will be double quoted. +Without the `-z` option, pathnames with "unusual" characters are +quoted as explained for the configuration variable `core.quotePath` +(see linkgit:git-config[1]). CONFIGURATION |