Merge branch 'cn/maint-branch-with-bad'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 15d6711d46754e9659561b4372b46ec3c6654d6b..6a8b1e3a7d06218903ce5614f51c4e7cbba73b17 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ OPTIONS
 --max-depth <depth>::
        For each <pathspec> given on command line, descend at most <depth>
        levels of directories. A negative value means no limit.
+       This option is ignored if <pathspec> contains active wildcards.
+       In other words if "a*" matches a directory named "a*",
+       "*" is matched literally so --max-depth is still effective.
 
 -w::
 --word-regexp::