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[PATCH 3/3] Document git commit --untracked-files and --verbose

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 12, 2007, 23:54 UTC
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Documentation based on description of commit 443f8338 which added '-u'|'--untracked-files' option to git-status, and on git-runstatus(1) man page.

Note that those options apply also to git-status.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
---
Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> +-u|--untracked-files::
>> +    Show all untracked files, also those in uninteresting
>> +    directories.
>> +
>> +-v|--verbose::
>> +    Show the diff output between the HEAD commit and what
>> +    would be committed.
>> +
> 
> Thanks -- "show" sounds a bit funny, though, don't you think?

Is this one, with a longer description of options, better? The previous version of this patch got skipped...

 Documentation/git-commit.txt |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 352a494..f96142f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-commit - Record changes to the repository
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v]
+'git-commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u]
 	   [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg> | --amend]
 	   [--no-verify] [-e] [--author <author>]
 	   [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
@@ -115,6 +115,19 @@ but can be used to amend a merge commit.
 	as well.  This is usually not what you want unless you
 	are concluding a conflicted merge.
 
+-u|--untracked-files::
+	Show all untracked files, also those in uninteresting
+	directories, in the "Untracked files:" section of commit
+	message template.  Without this option only its name and
+	a trailing slash are displayed for each untracked
+	directory.
+
+-v|--verbose::
+	Show unified diff between the HEAD commit and what
+	would be committed at the bottom of the commit message
+	template.  Note that this diff output doesn't have its
+	lines prefixed with '#'.
+
 -q|--quiet::
 	Suppress commit summary message.
 
-- 
1.5.2.2
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