[PATCH] git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known to git.
From: Mark Burton <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:40
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <redacted> --- Adding this advertises the current behaviour and should stop anyone else asking the same question! 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 2e62165..a1ce9a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways: 3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead - record the current content of the listed files; + record the current content of the listed files (which must already + be known to git); 4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically "add" changes from all known files (i.e. all files that are already
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