Merge "two fixes for fast-import's 'ls' command" from Jonathan

[git.git] / Documentation / git-update-index.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
index 68dc1879fe912b1a01b3caa6b1c0168f6a7b8072..a3081f4e237747dc858fd105302cbb9a489de41b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-update-index.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git update-index'
             [--add] [--remove | --force-remove] [--replace]
             [--refresh] [-q] [--unmerged] [--ignore-missing]
-            [--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>]\*
+            [(--cacheinfo <mode> <object> <file>)...]
             [--chmod=(+|-)x]
             [--assume-unchanged | --no-assume-unchanged]
             [--skip-worktree | --no-skip-worktree]
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
             [--info-only] [--index-info]
             [-z] [--stdin]
             [--verbose]
-            [--] [<file>]\*
+            [--] [<file>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ OPTIONS
 This option can be also used as a coarse file-level mechanism
 to ignore uncommitted changes in tracked files (akin to what
 `.gitignore` does for untracked files).
-You should remember that an explicit 'git add' operation will
-still cause the file to be refreshed from the working tree.
 Git will fail (gracefully) in case it needs to modify this file
 in the index e.g. when merging in a commit;
 thus, in case the assumed-untracked file is changed upstream,
@@ -146,8 +144,8 @@ you will need to handle the situation manually.
         Report what is being added and removed from index.
 
 -z::
-       Only meaningful with `--stdin`; paths are separated with
-       NUL character instead of LF.
+       Only meaningful with `--stdin` or `--index-info`; paths are
+       separated with NUL character instead of LF.
 
 \--::
        Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
@@ -266,7 +264,9 @@ tree files, you have to explicitly tell git about it by dropping
 "assume unchanged" bit, either before or after you modify them.
 
 In order to set "assume unchanged" bit, use `--assume-unchanged`
-option.  To unset, use `--no-assume-unchanged`.
+option.  To unset, use `--no-assume-unchanged`. To see which files
+have the "assume unchanged" bit set, use `git ls-files -v`
+(see linkgit:git-ls-files[1]).
 
 The command looks at `core.ignorestat` configuration variable.  When
 this is true, paths updated with `git update-index paths...` and
@@ -365,16 +365,8 @@ ctime for marking files processed) (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkgit:git-config[1],
-linkgit:git-add[1]
-
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
+linkgit:git-add[1],
+linkgit:git-ls-files[1]
 
 GIT
 ---