Re: [PATCH 06/13] Simplify "How to make a commit"

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2013, 05:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20130825050527.GI2882@elie.Belkin>
In-Reply-To: <1687455733.1090999.1377329376866.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail08.arcor-online.net>

Thomas Ackermann wrote:

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> --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
> @@ -1080,19 +1080,14 @@ produce no output at that point.
>  
>  Modifying the index is easy:
>  
> -To update the index with the new contents of a modified file, use
> +To add the contents of a new file to the index or update the index 
> +with the new contents of a modified file, use

That's a mouthful.  I'd say

	To update the index with the contents of a new or modified file, use

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> -To add the contents of a new file to the index, use
> -
> --------------------------------------------------
> -$ git add path/to/file
> --------------------------------------------------
> -

\o/

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> -To remove a file from the index and from the working tree,
> +To remove a file from the index and from the working tree, use
>  
>  -------------------------------------------------
>  $ git rm path/to/file

In git 2.0, (plain "rm" followed by) "git add" should work for this, too.