ENH: add new subdirectory exclude from top option

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmSubdirCommand.h b/Source/cmSubdirCommand.h
index c5fda34..fce1985 100644
--- a/Source/cmSubdirCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmSubdirCommand.h
@@ -62,10 +62,15 @@ public:
   virtual const char* GetFullDocumentation()
     {
     return
-      "  SUBDIRS(dir1 dir2 ...)\n"
+      "  SUBDIRS(dir1 dir2 ...[EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL exclude_dir1 exclude_dir2 ...])\n"
       "Add a list of subdirectories to the build. "
       "This will cause any CMakeLists.txt files in the sub directories "
-      "to be processed by CMake.";
+      "to be processed by CMake.  Any directories after the EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL marker "
+      "will not be included in the top level makefile or project file.  This is useful"
+      " for having cmake create makefiles or projects for a set of examples in a project."
+      "You would want cmake to generated makefiles or project files for all the examples at"
+      " the same time, but you would not want them to show up in the top level project or be built"
+      " each time make is run from the top.";
     }
   
   cmTypeMacro(cmSubdirCommand, cmCommand);