Merge branch 'cb/maint-t5541-make-server-port-portable' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 927ecee2f26cdf0bd30457d5016b654c01a23a14..b674866e6d166ccce096b58f7cecdbdb183c0194 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
 'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...
-'git reset' --patch [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]
-'git reset' [--soft | --mixed | --hard | --merge | --keep] [-q] [<commit>]
+'git reset' (--patch | -p) [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]
+'git reset' (--soft | --mixed | --hard | --merge | --keep) [-q] [<commit>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -34,15 +34,16 @@ Alternatively, using linkgit:git-checkout[1] and specifying a commit, you
 can copy the contents of a path out of a commit to the index and to the
 working tree in one go.
 
-'git reset' --patch|-p [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]::
+'git reset' (--patch | -p) [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]::
        Interactively select hunks in the difference between the index
        and <commit> (defaults to HEAD).  The chosen hunks are applied
        in reverse to the index.
 +
-This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p` (see
-linkgit:git-add[1]).
+This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p`, i.e.
+you can use it to selectively reset hunks. See the ``Interactive Mode''
+section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `\--patch` mode.
 
-'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
+'git reset' --<mode> [<commit>]::
        This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and
        possibly updates the index (resetting it to the tree of <commit>) and
        the working tree depending on <mode>, which
@@ -397,15 +398,6 @@ entries:
 
 X means any state and U means an unmerged index.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> and Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite