Re: Mistake in git-reset documentation

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 02:39:49PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 09:36:10AM +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:

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 DESCRIPTION
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@@ -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.

I know, but that is somewhat buried for somebody who is seeing that the
"--<mode>" bit is optional and wondering what it means to omit it.

-Peff