# a error in git documentation 3 messages from 2012-07-31 to 2012-07-31. Participants: Jialin Liu, Matthieu Moy, Michael J Gruber. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/31145 ## Jialin Liu, 2012-07-31 02:38 Subject: a error in git documentation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/DBDC25FF-7978-49BF-AB39-5EF9496F5456%40gmail.com ``` In http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository Notice how you don’t have to run git add on the benchmarks.rb file in this case before you commit. I think how should be changed to now ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2012-07-31 06:38 Subject: Re: a error in git documentation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqpq7c1ll0.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Jialin Liu writes: > In http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository > > Notice how you don’t have to run git add on the benchmarks.rb file in this case before you commit. In which case? (the page is rather long) I didn't see a case where "git add" was not needed (or "git commit" used with "-a", which gives the same effect). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ``` ## Michael J Gruber, 2012-07-31 08:38 Subject: Re: a error in git documentation Message-ID: <5017997A.70406@drmicha.warpmail.net> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/5017997A.70406%40drmicha.warpmail.net In-Reply-To: ``` Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 31.07.2012 08:38: > Jialin Liu writes: > >> In http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository >> >> Notice how you don’t have to run git add on the benchmarks.rb file in this case before you commit. > > In which case? (the page is rather long) > > I didn't see a case where "git add" was not needed (or "git commit" used > with "-a", which gives the same effect). > Matthieu: "Notice how..." is the line Jialin suggest to be changed. Jialin: "how" is correct; "how" starts a subsentence (subclause) which is used as the object for the verb "notice". ("Notice [that] now..." would be correct, too.) BTW: This is not in what many would call "git documentation" (i.e. git.git/Documentation/). It's in the Git book. But git-scm calls the the former "reference" and puts both under "Documentation". This is not about the question "who's the Git community". It's simply (im)practical: You contribute to the Git book via pull requests on GitHub and to "git documentation within the git project" by patches on this list. Michael ```