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Re: Documentation/git-commit.txt

From
Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Dec 10, 2006, 00:11 UTC
Message-ID
<200612100011.kBA0BuTo028252@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To
<alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
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> How about the following wording here
> 
> Instead of staging the content of each file immediately after changing 
> it, you can wait until you have completed all the changes you want to 
> make and then use the `-a` option to tell `git commit` to look for all 
> changes to the content it is tracking and commit it automatically. That 
                 ^^^^^^^
                 files
                 (or "files whose contents")
> is, this example ...
[Yes, git tracks the contents of files, but it also has a list of files
 whose contents it is tracking]
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  1. Horst H. von BrandDec 10, 2006
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