From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:49:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt et al.: Fix misleading -n description
Message-ID: <7vmykhu8vc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080716123344.5875.88693.stgit@localhost>

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> The manual page of git-cherry-pick and git-revert asserts that -n works
> primarily on the working tree, while in fact the primary object it operates
> on is the index, and the changes only "accidentally" propagate to the
> working tree. This e.g. leads innocent #git IRC folks to believe that you
> can use -n to prepare changes for git-add -i staging.

True, and false ;-)  Just "unstage" first in your "git add -i" session and
then add only the necessary pieces back to the index (alternatively you
can "reset" before entering "git add -i" session).

The change is good; will apply.