# [PATCH] Consistent usage of working tree in the git-add help 1 messages from 2016-01-21 to 2016-01-21. Participants: Lars Vogel. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/41234 ## Lars Vogel, 2016-01-21 10:09 Subject: [PATCH] Consistent usage of working tree in the git-add help Message-ID: <1453370955-26199-1-git-send-email-Lars.Vogel@vogella.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1453370955-26199-1-git-send-email-Lars.Vogel%40vogella.com ``` The usage of working directory is inconsistent in the git add help. Also http://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone speaks only about working tree. Remaining entry found by "git grep -B1 '^directory' git-add.txt" really relates to a directory. Signed-off-by: Lars Vogel --- Documentation/git-add.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index fe5282f..6a96a66 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ remove paths that do not exist in the working tree anymore. The "index" holds a snapshot of the content of the working tree, and it is this snapshot that is taken as the contents of the next commit. Thus -after making any changes to the working directory, and before running +after making any changes to the working tree, and before running the commit command, you must use the `add` command to add any new or modified files to the index. -- 2.7.0 ```