Merge branch 'wp/merge-tree-fix'

[git.git] / Documentation / diff-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index e745a3ccdc923b068e791a778a7c73b664b230d2..2371262b10aad44391406e126a1a8027b543fd49 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -328,8 +328,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --no-ext-diff::
        Disallow external diff drivers.
 
---ignore-submodules::
-       Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
+--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
+       Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be
+       either "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default. 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 until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules.
 
 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
        Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".