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Re: Documentation/git-commit.txt

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Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Date
Dec 10, 2006, 09:23 UTC
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<200612100923.56707.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
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On Sunday 10 December 2006 00:11, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
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> Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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]
regardless, I think "it" should become "them"
... it is tracking and commit them automatically. 
-- 
Alan Chandler
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  1. Horst H. von BrandDec 10, 2006
  2. Alan ChandlerDec 10, 2006
  3. Andreas EricssonDec 11, 2006

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