Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Stefan Näwe <stefan.naewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The manpage of git commit reads: >> >> --only >> >> Make a commit only from the paths specified on the command line, >> disregarding any contents that have been staged so far. This is >> the default mode of operation of git commit if any paths are given >> on the command line, in which case this option can be omitted. [...] > > "--only" is as opposed to "--also". Two modes of partial commits > are: > > - "--also" which updates the index with the whole contents of the > given paths and record the resulting index as the tree of the new > commit; > > - "--only" which starts from a new temporary index initialized from > HEAD with the whole contents of the given paths and record the > resulting index as the tree of the new commit, and then updates > the original index with the whole contents of the give paths. > > In other words, you give paths from the command line to tell the > command that you want to record the contents of them in the working > tree as a whole to be recorded in the resulting commit. s/also/include/; "--also" was its original name of the option while it was in development. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html