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Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Dec 9, 2006, 22:26 UTC
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Attached is an incremental patch on top of what you commented
> on.
> 
[...]
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>  <file>...::
> -	Files to be committed.  The meaning of these is
> -	different between `--include` and `--only`.  Without
> -	either, it defaults `--only` semantics.
> +	When files are given on the command line, the command
> +	commits the contents of the named files, without
> +	recording the changes already staged.  The contents of
> +	these files are also staged for the next commit on top
> +	of what have been staged before.

Might something like "When -i is provided however..." be missing in the above? Otherwise it is rather confusing.

Besides that I'm really happy with the result.
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Message 17 of 25 in “Documentation/git-commit.txt”
  1. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2006
  2. Salikh ZakirovDec 8, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2006
  4. Nicolas PitreDec 8, 2006
  5. Alan ChandlerDec 8, 2006
  6. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2006
  8. J. Bruce FieldsDec 9, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2006
  11. Documentation/git-commit: rewrite to make it more end-user friendly.Junio C Hamano, Dec 9, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  13. Junio C HamanoDec 9, 2006
  14. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2006
  15. Linus TorvaldsDec 9, 2006
  16. Jakub NarebskiDec 9, 2006
  17. Nicolas PitreDec 9, 2006
  18. Josef WeidendorferDec 10, 2006
  19. Nicolas PitreDec 10, 2006
  20. J. Bruce FieldsDec 10, 2006
  21. Nicolas PitreDec 10, 2006
  22. J. Bruce FieldsDec 10, 2006
  23. Junio C HamanoDec 10, 2006
  24. Alan ChandlerDec 10, 2006
  25. J. Bruce FieldsDec 9, 2006

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