From: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known to git.
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:33:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118223344.5c1f2de1@crow> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
---
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
--
1.6.0.4
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