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[PATCH] git-ls-files.txt: clarify what "other files" mean for --other

From
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date
Aug 6, 2009, 15:11 UTC
Message-ID
<1249571508-21897-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Actually, if it was not about backward compatibility, I'd just replace
-o, --other with -u, --untracked and talk about "untracked" everywhere,
but compatibility matters more than consistancy for plumbing.
 Documentation/git-ls-files.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
index 057a021..021066e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-ls-files.txt
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ OPTIONS
 
 -o::
 --others::
-	Show other files in the output
+	Show other (i.e. untracked) files in the output
 
 -i::
 --ignored::
-- 
1.6.4.55.gc63c6.dirty
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