[PATCH v3 3/5] git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch'
From: Valentin Haenel <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:51:10
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documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch' · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
- 2016-06-15 · Re: [PATCH v3 3/5] git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch' · Valentin Haenel <hidden>
* Include '-p' in the synopsis. * Include a better wording for what 'git reset -p' does. (interactively unstage hunks) * Include a link to the git-add manpage for a description of the patch-mode. Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <redacted> Helped-by: Jeff King [off-list ref] Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] --- Documentation/git-reset.txt | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 8481f9d..b6ed0c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>... -'git reset' --patch [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...] +'git reset' --patch|-p [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...] 'git reset' [--soft | --mixed | --hard | --merge | --keep] [-q] [<commit>] DESCRIPTION
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ working tree in one go. and <commit> (defaults to HEAD). The chosen hunks are applied in reverse to the index. + -This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p` (see -linkgit:git-add[1]). +This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p`, i.e. +you can use it to selectively unstage hunks. See the ``Interactive Mode'' +section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `\--patch` mode. 'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]:: This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and
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