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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitmodules.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 1932e9b9a..c08286e96 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -2293,7 +2293,9 @@ status.submodulesummary:: --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note that the summary output command will be suppressed for all submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only - for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. To + for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only + exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged + submodule changes. To also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the 'git submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does @@ -2324,7 +2326,9 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered - modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and + modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and + commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes + to the submodules work tree and takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. diff --git a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt index 347a9f76e..f6c0dfd02 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitmodules.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitmodules.txt @@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: submodule.<name>.ignore:: Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered - modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and + modified (but will nonetheless show up in the output of status and + commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes + to the submodules work tree and takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. |