From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: [PATCH] git add -e documentation: rephrase note Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:26:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20091014222628.GK6115@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 15 00:35:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MyCR0-0003uN-L2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:35:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934355AbZJNW1e (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:27:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934347AbZJNW1c (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:27:32 -0400 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([212.40.97.103]:41645 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934275AbZJNW1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:27:31 -0400 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F658083; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:26:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481B444906; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:26:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AD14011F002B; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:26:28 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The original note probably wanted to suggest "edit the patch with care", but actually suggested just editing the first characters on certain lines, which is a pretty bad suggestion. Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 45ebf87..daa1add 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -86,9 +86,8 @@ OPTIONS edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers and apply the patch to the index. + -*NOTE*: Obviously, if you change anything else than the first character -on lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer -apply. +*NOTE*: Obviously, if you change the first characters of the lines or +lines beginning with a space or a minus, the patch will no longer apply. -u:: --update:: -- 1.6.4