Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2016-06-15

Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:49
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Carl Worth [off-list ref] writes:

So the documentation of "commit -a" being implemented with "add" just
plain doesn't make sense---and this is causing confusion.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index cb081cd..b4528d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ methods:
 
 4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically "add"
    changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed
-   before, and perform the actual commit.
+   before, and to automatically "rm" files that have been
+   removed from the working tree, and perform the actual commit.
 
 The gitlink:git-status[1] command can be used to obtain a
 summary of what is included by any of the above for the next
  



    
  

  
    

      

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