git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index

[git.git] / Documentation / git-add.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index b8e3fa67598037bc5d0de30818b977048bbada72..2b6d6c86547b2cec370d34b14ddef25264404892 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-add - Add file contents to the index
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
-         [--update | -u] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--]
+'git add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
+         [--all | [--update | -u]] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--]
          <filepattern>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ OPTIONS
        command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
        current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
 
+-A::
+--all::
+       Update files that git already knows about (same as '\--update')
+       and add all untracked files that are not ignored by '.gitignore'
+       mechanism.
+
 --refresh::
        Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
        information in the index.
@@ -107,7 +113,7 @@ Configuration
 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:gitrepository-layout[5][repository layout].
+those in info/exclude.  See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5].
 
 
 EXAMPLES
@@ -187,8 +193,9 @@ update::
    "Update>>".  When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
    make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
    comma.  Also you can say ranges.  E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
-   2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list.  You can say '*' to choose
-   everything.
+   2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list.  If the second number in a range is
+   omitted, all remaining patches are taken.  E.g. "7-" to choose
+   7,8,9 from the list.  You can say '*' to choose everything.
 +
 What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
 like this:
@@ -236,6 +243,7 @@ patch::
        k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
        K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
        s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
+       e - manually edit the current hunk
        ? - print help
 +
 After deciding the fate for all hunks, if there is any hunk