[RFC/PATCH 2/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery

From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: May 19, 2013, 11:54 UTC
Message-ID: <1368964449-2724-3-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>
In-Reply-To: <1368964449-2724-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org>

The Git cli will generally accept dot '.' (period) as equivalent to the current repository when appropriate. Tell the reader of this 'do what I mean' (dwim)mery action.

Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
---
 Documentation/gitcli.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
index 9ac5088..64bb386 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ working tree.  After running `git add hello.c; rm hello.c`, you will _not_
 see `hello.c` in your working tree with the former, but with the latter
 you will.
 
+Just as, by convention, the filesystem '.' refers to the current directory,
+using a '.' (period) as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) refers
+to your local repository.
+
 Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are
 scripting Git:

-- 
1.8.1.msysgit.1