>From beca0d3dcd668e1b578588378149320cd3aed9d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jari Aalto Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:08:51 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index e67b7e8..0b2a2a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -72,9 +72,14 @@ OPTIONS -p:: --patch:: - Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is - bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of - the specified filepatterns before exiting. + Interactively choose hunks of diff between the index and the + work tree and add them to the index. This gives a change to + review the differences before adding modified contents to the + index. + + This effectively runs ``add --interactive``, but bypass the + initial command menu and directly jumps to `patch` subcommand. + See ``Interactive mode'' for details. -e, \--edit:: Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user -- 1.6.3.3