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Re: Mistake in git-reset documentation

From: Andreas Schwab <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:08

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:36:10AM +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
quoted
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p`, i.e.
 you can use it to selectively reset hunks. See the ``Interactive Mode''
 section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
 
-'git reset' --<mode> [<commit>]::
+'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
 	This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and
 	possibly updates the index (resetting it to the tree of <commit>) and
 	the working tree depending on <mode>, which
Should we say something like "if --<mode> is omitted, defaults to
"--mixed"?
Under --mixed it already says "This is the default action", though.

Andreas.

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