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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:42:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vmy5fy2hz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y6p08lz5.fsf@jondo.cante.net

Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

>     --patch:
>     -p::
>         In a modified work tree, choose interactively which patch hunks to
>         add. This gives a change to review the difference between the
>         index and the work before adding modified contents to the index.

Sounds sensible.  You may want to be even more direct and succinct, e.g.

    Interactively choose hunks of patch between the index and the work
    tree and add them to the index.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-30 17:29 [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 21:02   ` Jeff King
2009-08-30 21:56   ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 22:13     ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 23:06       ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-30 23:20         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-31  7:46           ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-31 23:42             ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2009-09-13  6:44               ` [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add Jari Aalto
2009-09-13 13:48                 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-09-13 14:09                   ` Jari Aalto
2009-09-14 13:13                     ` Sean Estabrooks
2009-09-15  5:35                       ` [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add (updated patch) Jari Aalto
2009-09-15  6:52                         ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-09-15  8:17                           ` Jari Aalto
2009-09-15 10:35                             ` Nanako Shiraishi
2009-08-30 23:31         ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-add.txt: Explain --patch option in layman terms Junio C Hamano
2009-08-31  7:06           ` Jari Aalto
2009-08-31  7:32             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-30 22:00   ` Jari Aalto

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