It is trivial if
Yes, it was very stupid of me to miss that.
I dunno. An obvious alternative is to add T next to all occurrences of M in the table where we say "M is possible", but unless it is accompanied by an explanation "T is just a special case of M", I suspect the resulting description would be harder to understand than currently is, and as long as the reader understands "T is just a special case of M", then there isn't much point adding T everywhere M appears in the table anyway, so...
If you are suggesting that the patch you gave is preferable to actually including T in the table, then I agree. Your patch is also better than what I sent because it includes the unusual word "filetype", which the user is likely to search for after seeing it in the git-status output.
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