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[PATCH] Document the fact that commit -a is the way to go for simple operations

From: Matthieu Moy <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:08
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-commit.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 2895225..d024c03 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ OPTIONS
 -a|--all::
 	Tell the command to automatically stage files that have
 	been modified and deleted, but new files you have not
-	told git about are not affected.
+	told git about are not affected.  You should use it for most
+        trivial operations.
 
 -c or -C <commit>::
 	Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message
-- 
1.5.1.3
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