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[PATCH] Consistent usage of working tree in the git-add help

From
Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 21, 2016, 10:09 UTC
Message-ID
<1453370955-26199-1-git-send-email-Lars.Vogel@vogella.com>

The usage of working directory is inconsistent in the git add help. Also http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone speaks only about working tree. Remaining entry found by "git grep -B1 '^directory' git-add.txt" really relates to a directory.

Signed-off-by: Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel@vogella.com>
---
 Documentation/git-add.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index fe5282f..6a96a66 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ remove paths that do not exist in the working tree anymore.
 
 The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it
 is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit.  Thus
-after making any changes to the working directory, and before running
+after making any changes to the working tree, and before running
 the commit command, you must use the `add` command to add any new or
 modified files to the index.
 
-- 
2.7.0
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  1. Consistent usage of working tree in the git-add helpLars Vogel, Jan 21, 2016

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