Merge branch 'rc/maint-curl-helper' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / git-status.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index b3dfa42cc0211dbd8881f471ac287fa0b9cd5915..2d4bbfcaf4cc2d2b92ad827662dc3b4b4ef355c0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ current HEAD commit, paths that have differences between the working
 tree and the index file, and paths in the working tree that are not
 tracked by git (and are not ignored by linkgit:gitignore[5]). The first
 are what you _would_ commit by running `git commit`; the second and
-third are what you _could_ commit by running 'git-add' before running
+third are what you _could_ commit by running 'git add' before running
 `git commit`.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -72,21 +72,37 @@ In short-format, the status of each path is shown as
 
 where `PATH1` is the path in the `HEAD`, and ` -> PATH2` part is
 shown only when `PATH1` corresponds to a different path in the
-index/worktree (i.e. renamed).
-
-For unmerged entries, `X` shows the status of stage #2 (i.e. ours) and `Y`
-shows the status of stage #3 (i.e. theirs).
-
-For entries that do not have conflicts, `X` shows the status of the index,
-and `Y` shows the status of the work tree.  For untracked paths, `XY` are
-`??`.
+index/worktree (i.e. the file is renamed). The 'XY' is a two-letter
+status code.
+
+The fields (including the `->`) are separated from each other by a
+single space. If a filename contains whitespace or other nonprintable
+characters, that field will be quoted in the manner of a C string
+literal: surrounded by ASCII double quote (34) characters, and with
+interior special characters backslash-escaped.
+
+For paths with merge conflicts, `X` and 'Y' show the modification
+states of each side of the merge. For paths that do not have merge
+conflicts, `X` shows the status of the index, and `Y` shows the status
+of the work tree.  For untracked paths, `XY` are `??`.  Other status
+codes can be interpreted as follows:
+
+* ' ' = unmodified
+* 'M' = modified
+* 'A' = added
+* 'D' = deleted
+* 'R' = renamed
+* 'C' = copied
+* 'U' = updated but unmerged
+
+Ignored files are not listed.
 
     X          Y     Meaning
     -------------------------------------------------
               [MD]   not updated
     M        [ MD]   updated in index
     A        [ MD]   added to index
-    D        [ MD]   deleted from index
+    D         [ M]   deleted from index
     R        [ MD]   renamed in index
     C        [ MD]   copied in index
     [MARC]           index and work tree matches
@@ -104,6 +120,15 @@ and `Y` shows the status of the work tree.  For untracked paths, `XY` are
     ?           ?    untracked
     -------------------------------------------------
 
+There is an alternate -z format recommended for machine parsing.  In
+that format, the status field is the same, but some other things
+change.  First, the '->' is omitted from rename entries and the field
+order is reversed (e.g 'from -> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
+(ASCII 0) follows each filename, replacing space as a field separator
+and the terminating newline (but a space still separates the status
+field from the first filename).  Third, filenames containing special
+characters are not specially formatted; no quoting or
+backslash-escaping is performed.
 
 CONFIGURATION
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