[PATCH/RFC 2/6] docs: note that status configuration affects only long format

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

Date

Sep 5, 2009, 08:52 UTC

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Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
Combined with the --short/--porcelain distinction introduced later in
the series, should short perhaps respect status.relativePaths and
status.submoduleSummary? Which would mean replacing this patch with ones
to make those things work. :)

 Documentation/git-status.txt |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
index b5939d6..fd71a7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
@@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ compatibility) and `color.status.<slot>` configuration variables
 to colorize its output.
 
 If the config variable `status.relativePaths` is set to false, then all
-paths shown are relative to the repository root, not to the current
-directory.
+paths shown in the long format are relative to the repository root, not
+to the current directory.
 
 If `status.submodulesummary` is set to a non zero number or true (identical
-to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
-summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit
-option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]).
+to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled for
+the long format and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be
+shown (see --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]).
 
 SEE ALSO
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