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diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 1c74907..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. @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ This effectively runs `add --interactive`, but bypasses the initial command menu and directly jumps to the `patch` subcommand. See ``Interactive mode'' for details. --e, \--edit:: +-e:: +--edit:: Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user edit it. After the editor was closed, adjust the hunk headers and apply the patch to the index. @@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ for "git add --no-all <pathspec>...", i.e. ignored removed files. Configuration ------------- -The optional configuration variable `core.excludesfile` indicates a path to a +The optional configuration variable `core.excludesFile` indicates a path to a file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. @@ -317,7 +318,7 @@ After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk that was chosen, the index is updated with the selected hunks. + You can omit having to type return here, by setting the configuration -variable `interactive.singlekey` to `true`. +variable `interactive.singleKey` to `true`. diff:: |