Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?
Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
> So the documentation of "commit -a" being implemented with "add" just
> plain doesn't make sense---and this is causing confusion.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index cb081cd..b4528d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ methods:
4. by using the -a switch with the 'commit' command to automatically "add"
changes from all known files i.e. files that have already been committed
- before, and perform the actual commit.
+ before, and to automatically "rm" files that have been
+ removed from the working tree, and perform the actual commit.
The gitlink:git-status[1] command can be used to obtain a
summary of what is included by any of the above for the next
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>