Re: [PATCH 1/5] status: document the -v/--verbose option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2015, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvbgm3dm0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1429792070-22991-2-git-send-email-mhagger@alum.mit.edu>

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Document `git status -v`, including its new doubled `-vv` form.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
> ---

Will queue on mg/status-v-v series, which did add description for "commit -v", but "status -v" did not have the description to begin with and we missed it.

Thanks.

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>  Documentation/git-status.txt | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt
> index b3319f7..9ec5897 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt
> @@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ OPTIONS
>  --long::
>  	Give the output in the long-format. This is the default.
>  
> +-v::
> +--verbose::
> +	In addition to the names of files that have been changed, also
> +	show the textual changes that are staged to be committed
> +	(i.e., like the output of `git diff`). If `-v` is specified
> +	twice, then also show the changes in the working tree that
> +	have not yet been staged (i.e., like the output of `git diff
> +	--cached`).
> +
>  -u[<mode>]::
>  --untracked-files[=<mode>]::
>  	Show untracked files.