diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index e745a3ccdc..2371262b10 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -328,8 +328,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] --no-ext-diff:: Disallow external diff drivers. ---ignore-submodules:: - Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. +--ignore-submodules[=<when>]:: + Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be + either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. 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, + only changes to the commits stored in the superproject are shown (this was + the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules. --src-prefix=<prefix>:: Show the given source prefix instead of "a/". |