[PATCH] doc: emphasize stash "--keep-index" stashes staged content

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It's not immediately obvious from the man page that the "--keep-index"
option still adds the staged content to the stash, so make that
abundantly clear.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 00f95fee1..037144037 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ entries and working tree files are then rolled back to the state in
 HEAD only for these files, too, leaving files that do not match the
 pathspec intact.
 +
-If the `--keep-index` option is used, all changes already added to the
-index are left intact.
+If the `--keep-index` option is used, all changes already staged in the
+index are left intact in the index, while still being added to the stash.
 +
 If the `--include-untracked` option is used, all untracked files are also
 stashed and then cleaned up with `git clean`, leaving the working directory

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