ls-files: optionally recurse into submodules

diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 0d933ac355e8a1bef0758b40d293f2f5a7e7c962..ea01d45e5c49a80cf73aec062ef0f6f6471df9d9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
                [--exclude-per-directory=<file>]
                [--exclude-standard]
                [--error-unmatch] [--with-tree=<tree-ish>]
-               [--full-name] [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
+               [--full-name] [--recurse-submodules]
+               [--abbrev] [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -137,6 +138,11 @@ a space) at the start of each line:
        option forces paths to be output relative to the project
        top directory.
 
+--recurse-submodules::
+       Recursively calls ls-files on each submodule in the repository.
+       Currently there is only support for the --cached mode without a
+       pathspec.
+
 --abbrev[=<n>]::
        Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
        lines, show only a partial prefix.