Documentation: remove stray backslash in show-branch discussion

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index 2d4bbfcaf4cc2d2b92ad827662dc3b4b4ef355c0..dae190a5f21d3835024ce263bf4bd9b08048cfa6 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --short::
        Give the output in the short-format.
 
+-b::
+--branch::
+       Show the branch and tracking info even in short-format.
+
 --porcelain::
        Give the output in a stable, easy-to-parse format for scripts.
        Currently this is identical to --short output, but is guaranteed
@@ -49,6 +53,21 @@ See linkgit:git-config[1] for configuration variable
 used to change the default for when the option is not
 specified.
 
+--ignore-submodules[=<when>]::
+       Ignore changes to submodules when looking for changes. <when> can be
+       either "none", "untracked", "dirty" or "all", which is the default.
+       Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it either contains
+       untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded
+       in the superproject and can be used to override any settings of the
+       'ignore' option in linkgit:git-config[1] or linkgit:gitmodules[5]. 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 before 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to submodules
+       (and suppresses the output of submodule summaries when the config option
+       `status.submodulesummary` is set).
+
 -z::
        Terminate entries with NUL, instead of LF.  This implies
        the `--porcelain` output format if no other format is given.
@@ -120,6 +139,10 @@ Ignored files are not listed.
     ?           ?    untracked
     -------------------------------------------------
 
+If -b is used the short-format status is preceded by a line
+
+## branchname tracking info
+
 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
@@ -128,7 +151,7 @@ order is reversed (e.g 'from -> to' becomes 'to from'). Second, a NUL
 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.
+backslash-escaping is performed. Fourth, there is no branch line.
 
 CONFIGURATION
 -------------