Merge branch 'rs/fsck-null-return-from-lookup'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 725065ef2d7b6b3c7c6c29a434a8996a7e1ae559..9f3a78a36c48c55318ee0eea8e96a64ccce5bfa2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --branch::
        Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
 
+--show-stash::
+       Show the number of entries currently stashed away.
+
 --porcelain[=<version>]::
        Give the output in an easy-to-parse format for scripts.
        This is similar to the short output, but will remain stable
@@ -108,6 +111,8 @@ configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
        without options are equivalent to 'always' and 'never'
        respectively.
 
+<pathspec>...::
+       See the 'pathspec' entry in linkgit:gitglossary[7].
 
 OUTPUT
 ------
@@ -181,6 +186,17 @@ 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 +226,8 @@ 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 +340,9 @@ 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