Re: [PATCH] add: Clarify documentation of -A and -u

: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 02:08:21 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add: Clarify documentation of -A and -u The documentation of '-A' and '-u' is very confusing for someone who doesn't already know what they do. Describe them with fewer words and clearer parallelism to each other and to the behavior of plain 'add

Re: [PATCH] add: Clarify documentation of -A and -u

Greg Price pr...@mit.edu writes: diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 388a225..f89d920 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ apply to the index. See EDITING PATCHES below. will never stage new

[PATCH] add: Clarify documentation of -A and -u

The documentation of '-A' is very confusing for someone who doesn't already know what it does. In particular, it describes the option's meaning by reference to that of '-u', but it's no more similar to the latter than it is to the default behavior. Describe it directly (and in a way that uses