From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
To: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Cc: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add (updated patch)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:35:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxaolqhd.fsf_-_@jondo.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP18292B09CCFD873F4A6DF6AEE40@phx.gbl> (Sean Estabrooks's message of "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:13:16 -0700")
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Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:
> ... To me though, it seems more difficult to parse this description
> than the one offered by Junio in an earlier thread ...perhaps you'd
> consider something closer to yours, such as:
>
> Interactively review the differences between the index and the
> work tree and choose which hunks to add into the index.
>
> This effectively runs ``add --interactive``, but bypasses the
> initial command menu and jumps directly to the `patch` subcommand.
> See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
Updated, thanks,
Jari
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From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:33:51 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add
Signed-off-by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
---
Documentation/git-add.txt | 9 ++++++---
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e67b7e8..c57895a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -72,9 +72,12 @@ OPTIONS
-p::
--patch::
- Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
- bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
- the specified filepatterns before exiting.
+ Interactively review the differences between the index and the
+ work tree and choose which hunks to add into the index.
+
+ This effectively runs ``add --interactive``, but bypasses the
+ initial command menu and jumps directly to the `patch` subcommand.
+ See ``Interactive mode'' for details.
-e, \--edit::
Open the diff vs. the index in an editor and let the user
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 5:35 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
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 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
2009-09-15 6:52 ` [PATCH] Improve --patch option documentation in git-add (updated patch) 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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