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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/25] Port builtin-add.c to use the new option parser.
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:36:51 -0400
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Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
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On 16 Oct 2007, at 9:17:29 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Witten wrote:
>
>> On 16 Oct 2007, at 4:39:42 AM, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>>
>>> +	OPT_BOOLEAN('u', NULL, &take_worktree_changes, "update only files
>>> that git already knows about"),
>>
>> "update only files that git already knows about in the current  
>> directory"
>
> "update tracked files"

"update tracked files in ."

;-)


Consider the description for git-commit's -a:

> Tell the command to automatically stage files that have been
> modified and deleted, but new files you have not told git about
> are not affected.

However, that's not what -u does.