From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:25:41 GMT Subject: Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index? Message-ID: <7vwt3qk722.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <87wt3qwwm0.wl%cworth@cworth.org> Carl Worth 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