[PATCH] git-commit.txt - mention that files listed on the command line must be known to git.

From

MBMark Burton <markb@ordern.com>

Date

Nov 18, 2008, 22:33 UTC

Message-ID

<20081118223344.5c1f2de1@crow>

Signed-off-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
---

 Adding this advertises the current behaviour and should stop anyone else
 asking the same question!

 Documentation/git-commit.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 2e62165..a1ce9a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
 
 3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which
    case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead
-   record the current content of the listed files;
+   record the current content of the listed files (which must already
+   be known to git);
 
 4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically
    "add" changes from all known files (i.e. all files that are already

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1.6.0.4