From 953202a3fd68f84210cfe9bf102c534ac3ee40e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 22:19:17 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Tutorial: fix asciidoc formatting of "git add" section. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/tutorial.txt | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt index adb1e32750..ea3418909e 100644 --- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt +++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt @@ -101,27 +101,27 @@ want to commit together. This can be done in a few different ways: 1) By using 'git add ...' - This can be performed multiple times before a commit. Note that this - is not only for adding new files. Even modified files must be - added to the set of changes about to be committed. The "git status" - command gives you a summary of what is included so far for the - next commit. When done you should use the 'git commit' command to - make it real. - - Note: don't forget to 'add' a file again if you modified it after the - first 'add' and before 'commit'. Otherwise only the previous added - state of that file will be committed. This is because git tracks - content, so what you're really 'add'ing to the commit is the *content* - of the file in the state it is in when you 'add' it. +This can be performed multiple times before a commit. Note that this +is not only for adding new files. Even modified files must be +added to the set of changes about to be committed. The "git status" +command gives you a summary of what is included so far for the +next commit. When done you should use the 'git commit' command to +make it real. + +Note: don't forget to 'add' a file again if you modified it after the +first 'add' and before 'commit'. Otherwise only the previous added +state of that file will be committed. This is because git tracks +content, so what you're really 'add'ing to the commit is the *content* +of the file in the state it is in when you 'add' it. 2) By using 'git commit -a' directly - This is a quick way to automatically 'add' the content from all files - that were modified since the previous commit, and perform the actual - commit without having to separately 'add' them beforehand. This will - not add content from new files i.e. files that were never added before. - Those files still have to be added explicitly before performing a - commit. +This is a quick way to automatically 'add' the content from all files +that were modified since the previous commit, and perform the actual +commit without having to separately 'add' them beforehand. This will +not add content from new files i.e. files that were never added before. +Those files still have to be added explicitly before performing a +commit. But here's a twist. If you do 'git commit ...' then only the changes belonging to those explicitly specified files will be -- 2.32.0.93.g670b81a890