Use a temporary index for git commit --interactive

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index fd0fe7cb56cf3ba163cef467f5fc9c35b0ea963b..00b699fef71b45c78e298fa48609b553a32fd175 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -38,20 +38,35 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -u[<mode>]::
 --untracked-files[=<mode>]::
-       Show untracked files (Default: 'all').
+       Show untracked files.
 +
-The mode parameter is optional, and is used to specify
-the handling of untracked files. The possible options are:
+The mode parameter is optional (defaults to 'all'), and is used to
+specify the handling of untracked files; when -u is not used, the
+default is 'normal', i.e. show untracked files and directories.
++
+The possible options are:
 +
---
        - 'no'     - Show no untracked files
        - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories
        - 'all'    - Also shows individual files in untracked directories.
---
 +
-See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable
-used to change the default for when the option is not
-specified.
+The default can be changed using the status.showUntrackedFiles
+configuration variable documented in linkgit:git-config[1].
+
+--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
+       Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be
+       either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default.
+       Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+       untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+       in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+       'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. 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 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).
 
 -z::
        Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF.  This implies
@@ -159,14 +174,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:gitignore[5]
 
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>.
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite