From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 15:11:08 GMT Subject: [PATCH V3 1/2] doc: command line interface (cli) dot-repository dwimmery Message-ID: <1379776269-4496-2-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> In-Reply-To: <1379776269-4496-1-git-send-email-philipoakley@iee.org> The Git cli will accept dot '.' (period) as the relative path, and thus the current repository. Explain this action. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley --- This updates 431260cc8dd Documentation/gitcli.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/gitcli.txt b/Documentation/gitcli.txt index b065c0e..50e4ce0 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitcli.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitcli.txt @@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ the paths in the index that match the pattern to be checked out to your 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 the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory, -using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a relative -path for your current repository. + + * Just as the filesystem '.' (period) refers to the current directory, + using a '.' as a repository name in Git (a dot-repository) is a relative + path and hence will be your current repository. Here are the rules regarding the "flags" that you should follow when you are scripting Git: -- 1.8.1.msysgit.1