Documentation: tutorial editing

Edit for conciseness.

Add a "Making changes" section header.

When possible, make sure that stuff in text boxes could be entered literally.
(Don't use "..." unless we want a user to type that.)

Move 'commit -a' example into a literal code section, clarify that it finds
modified files automatically.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index 79884d9c74d3175e179dc5a83e9163908242d6ca..01d4a47a97fa864c6948b8ae98ece1f00b1003da 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
 
 You've now initialized the working directory--you may notice a new
 directory created, named ".git".  Tell git that you want it to track
-every file under the current directory with (notice the dot '.'
-that means the current directory):
+every file under the current directory (note the '.') with:
 
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 $ git add .
@@ -59,6 +58,9 @@ $ git commit
 will prompt you for a commit message, then record the current state
 of all the files to the repository.
 
+Making changes
+--------------
+
 Try modifying some files, then run
 
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@@ -70,19 +72,21 @@ want the updated contents of these files in the commit and then
 make a commit, like this:
 
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-$ git add file1 file...
+$ git add file1 file2 file3
 $ git commit
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 This will again prompt your for a message describing the change, and then
-record the new versions of the files you listed.  It is cumbersome
-to list all files and you can say `git commit -a` (which stands for 'all')
-instead of running `git add` beforehand.
+record the new versions of the files you listed.
+
+Alternatively, instead of running `git add` beforehand, you can use
 
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 $ git commit -a
 ------------------------------------------------
 
+which will automatically notice modified (but not new) files.
+
 A note on commit messages: Though not required, it's a good idea to
 begin the commit message with a single short (less than 50 character)
 line summarizing the change, followed by a blank line and then a more