! ! ignored
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+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
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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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