From: Jari Aalto Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:44:32 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add Message-ID: <87ab0zny27.fsf_-_@jondo.cante.net> In-Reply-To: <7vmy5fy2hz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Junio C Hamano writes: > Jari Aalto writes: > >> --patch: >> -p:: >> In a modified work tree, choose interactively which patch hunks to >> add. This gives a change to review the difference between the >> index and the work before adding modified contents to the index. > > Sounds sensible. You may want to be even more direct and succinct, e.g. > > Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the work > tree and add them to the index. Thanks, see below, Jari >From 63aa94e7782d6340ead0446ea80ed6223d7ac5c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jari Aalto Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:43:10 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index e67b7e8..b94fbec 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -72,9 +72,14 @@ OPTIONS -p:: --patch:: - Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is - bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of - the specified filepatterns before exiting. + Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the + work tree and add them to the index. This gives a change to + review the difference before adding modified contents to the + index. + + This effectively runs ``add --interactive``, but bypass the + initial command menu and directly jump to `patch` subcommand. + See ``Interactive mode'' for details. -e, \--edit:: Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user -- 1.6.3.3