As reported in [1], T is missing from the description of porcelain status letters in git-status(1) (whereas T is documented in git-diff-files(1) and friends). Document T right after M (modified) because the two are very similar. A porcelain status containing C (copied) is impossible because "git status" does not detect copies, only renames. I was going to delete mentions of C from git-status.txt because it keeps confusing users [2] but a discussion from 2014 suggests that "git status" should re-learn to detect copies, which was disabled in 2005 for (obsolete) performance reasons [3]. [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/8311 [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/ppc2l9/how_to_get_a_file_with_copied_status/ [3] https://marc.info/?l=git&m=141755095826447&w=2 Signed-off-by: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-status.txt | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-status.txt b/Documentation/git-status.txt index 83f38e3198..40f308c6a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-status.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-status.txt @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ show tracked paths: * ' ' = unmodified * 'M' = modified +* 'T' = file type changed (regular file, symbolic link or submodule) * 'A' = added * 'D' = deleted * 'R' = renamed @@ -217,14 +218,16 @@ show tracked paths: X Y Meaning ------------------------------------------------- [AMD] not updated -M [ MD] updated in index -A [ MD] added to index +M [ MTD] updated in index +T [ MTD] type changed in index +A [ MTD] added to index D deleted from index -R [ MD] renamed in index -C [ MD] copied in index -[MARC] index and work tree matches -[ MARC] M work tree changed since index -[ MARC] D deleted in work tree +R [ MTD] renamed in index +C [ MTD] copied in index +[MTARC] index and work tree matches +[ MTARC] M work tree changed since index +[ MTARC] T type changed in work tree since index +[ MTARC] D deleted in work tree [ D] R renamed in work tree [ D] C copied in work tree ------------------------------------------------- -- 2.33.0.rc2.dirty
