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Re: [PATCH] Document that "git add" only adds non-ignored files.

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SSanti <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date
May 20, 2006, 09:54 UTC
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2006/5/19, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>:
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> Thanks for the reminder, but I wonder if it is good to update
> the description of this command, and ls-files to use the
> same wording for consistency.  We seem to use <pathspec> to mean
> "this is not necessarily a filename -- we glob", so that may be
> a good candidate (we do not have <pathspec> in glossary yet --
> we would need to add).
I changed it to match with the new usage string in the buildin-add.c.
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> Please don't touch description for diff-* family -- right now,
> they say <path>, because they do not glob.  If we decide that it
> is a good idea to glob (which I suspect we don't for the
> low-level stuff, but we probably do for the "git-diff" wrapper),
> we would update the code and the description at the same time.
>
OK.
Santi
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