Merge branch 'hv/submodule-find-ff-merge'

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index b169836684a56aae176875effa5cc4e6a619de80..22aee34d4a49b242370e5244f35d542ad0b79391 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ is usually a shortcut for the HEAD branch in the repository "origin".
 For the complete list of paths which git checks for references, and
 the order it uses to decide which to choose when there are multiple
 references with the same shorthand name, see the "SPECIFYING
-REVISIONS" section of linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
+REVISIONS" section of linkgit:gitrevisions[1].
 
 [[Updating-a-repository-With-git-fetch]]
 Updating a repository with git fetch
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ We have seen several ways of naming commits already:
        - HEAD: refers to the head of the current branch
 
 There are many more; see the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section of the
-linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] man page for the complete list of ways to
+linkgit:gitrevisions[1] man page for the complete list of ways to
 name revisions.  Some examples:
 
 -------------------------------------------------
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ commits reachable from some head but not from any tag in the repository:
 $ gitk $( git show-ref --heads ) --not  $( git show-ref --tags )
 -------------------------------------------------
 
-(See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for explanations of commit-selecting
+(See linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for explanations of commit-selecting
 syntax such as `--not`.)
 
 [[making-a-release]]
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ the time, you will want to commit your changes before you can merge,
 and if you don't, then linkgit:git-stash[1] can take these changes
 away while you're doing the merge, and reapply them afterwards.
 
-If the changes are independant enough, Git will automatically complete
+If the changes are independent enough, Git will automatically complete
 the merge and commit the result (or reuse an existing commit in case
 of <<fast-forwards,fast-forward>>, see below). On the other hand,
 if there are conflicts--for example, if the same file is
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ you've checked out.
 The reflogs are kept by default for 30 days, after which they may be
 pruned.  See linkgit:git-reflog[1] and linkgit:git-gc[1] to learn
 how to control this pruning, and see the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS"
-section of linkgit:git-rev-parse[1] for details.
+section of linkgit:gitrevisions[1] for details.
 
 Note that the reflog history is very different from normal git history.
 While normal history is shared by every repository that works on the
@@ -3640,6 +3640,26 @@ Did you forget to 'git add'?
 Unable to checkout '261dfac35cb99d380eb966e102c1197139f7fa24' in submodule path 'a'
 -------------------------------------------------
 
+In older git versions it could be easily forgotten to commit new or modified
+files in a submodule, which silently leads to similar problems as not pushing
+the submodule changes. Starting with git 1.7.0 both "git status" and "git diff"
+in the superproject show submodules as modified when they contain new or
+modified files to protect against accidentally committing such a state. "git
+diff" will also add a "-dirty" to the work tree side when generating patch
+output or used with the --submodule option:
+
+-------------------------------------------------
+$ git diff
+diff --git a/sub b/sub
+--- a/sub
++++ b/sub
+@@ -1 +1 @@
+-Subproject commit 3f356705649b5d566d97ff843cf193359229a453
++Subproject commit 3f356705649b5d566d97ff843cf193359229a453-dirty
+$ git diff --submodule
+Submodule sub 3f35670..3f35670-dirty:
+-------------------------------------------------
+
 You also should not rewind branches in a submodule beyond commits that were
 ever recorded in any superproject.