Re: automatically removing missing files beneath a directory
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- May 8, 2008, 17:18 UTC
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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:12:56AM -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:
> Cool. "git add -u && git add ." does exactly what I want. > > This is only indirectly mentioned in the documentation. If you think > it's reasonable to mention it more explicitly, I've attached a patch.
Yeah, the term "update" is not really defined there. I actually prefer to mention it even earlier in the paragraph; does this make sense to you?
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 35e67a0..e2389e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ OPTIONS the specified filepatterns before exiting. -u:: - Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar + Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified + content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This + is similar to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit, except that the update is limited to paths specified on the command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the