From: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@xxxxxxxxxxx> Synchronize it to `git add`, which has a pretty good description. This also better disambiguates <file>... header. Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-commit.txt | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index afa7b75a23..4341d0e3ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-F <file> | -m <msg>] [--reset-author] [--allow-empty] [--allow-empty-message] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>] [--date=<date>] [--cleanup=<mode>] [--[no-]status] - [-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<file>...] + [-i | -o] [-S[<keyid>]] [--] [<pathspec>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -345,12 +345,15 @@ changes to tracked files. \--:: Do not interpret any more arguments as options. -<file>...:: +<pathspec>...:: When files are given on the command line, the command commits the contents of the named files, without recording the changes already staged. The contents of these files are also staged for the next commit on top of what have been staged before. ++ +For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry +in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. :git-commit: 1 include::date-formats.txt[] -- gitgitgadget
