From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:36:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/25] Port builtin-add.c to use the new option parser.
Message-ID: <646BC634-0D2C-4207-903B-D78883365188@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161417150.25221@racer.site>


On 16 Oct 2007, at 9:17:29 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> On 16 Oct 2007, at 4:39:42 AM, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>
>>> +	OPT_BOOLEAN('u', NULL, &take_worktree_changes, "update only files
>>> that git already knows about"),
>>
>> "update only files that git already knows about in the current  
>> directory"
>
> "update tracked files"

"update tracked files in ."

;-)


Consider the description for git-commit's -a:

> Tell the command to automatically stage files that have been
> modified and deleted, but new files you have not told git about
> are not affected.

However, that's not what -u does.