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diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 4d8d530..e1e8f57 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -41,12 +41,21 @@ 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. + -The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to -specify the handling of untracked files. +The mode parameter is used to specify the handling of untracked files. +It is optional: it defaults to 'all', and if specified, it must be +stuck to the option (e.g. `-uno`, but not `-u no`). + The possible options are: + @@ -58,7 +67,10 @@ 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 +89,7 @@ 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. @@ -207,7 +219,7 @@ 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 |