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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index e745a3ccd..2371262b1 100644
--- 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/".