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[PATCH] Documentation/config: describe status.submodulesummary

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
May 20, 2010, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID
<8dde28deb72eb473c9177bb212647b0976fa2458.1274370897.git.git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

ac8d5af (builtin-status: submodule summary support, 2008-04-12) intoduced this variable and described it in git-status[1].

Include this description in git-config[1], as well.
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
---
 Documentation/config.txt |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 39140ba..100ac7c 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1691,6 +1691,13 @@ If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
 This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
 of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
 
+status.submodulesummary::
+	Defaults to false.
+	If this 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]).
+
 tar.umask::
 	This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
 	tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
-- 
1.7.1.259.g3aef8
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  1. Documentation/config: describe status.submodulesummaryMichael J Gruber, May 20, 2010

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