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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-add.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff.txt | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index e5efbc9a4..2fe735555 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ files have changes that are staged for the next commit. The 'git add' command will not add ignored files by default. If any ignored files were explicitly specified on the command line, 'git add' will fail with a list of ignored files. Ignored files reached by -directory recursion or filename globbing will be silently ignored. -The 'add' command can be used to add ignored files with the `-f` -(force) option. +directory recursion or filename globbing performed by Git (quote your +globs before the shell) will be silently ignored. The 'add' command can +be used to add ignored files with the `-f` (force) option. Please see gitlink:git-commit[1] for alternative ways to add content to a commit. diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index 68e65324f..db2eb46a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -53,23 +53,24 @@ forced by --no-index. one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as using HEAD instead. -'git-diff' [--options] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: +'git-diff' [--options] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes on the branch containing and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor - of both <commit>. "git-diff A...B" is equivalent to + of both <commit>. "git-diff A\...B" is equivalent to "git-diff $(git-merge-base A B) B". You can omit any one of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead. Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be -noted that all of the <commit> in the above description can be -any <tree-ish>. +noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except +for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any +<tree-ish>. For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges, and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and -"<commit>...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the +"<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the "SPECIFYING RANGES" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1]. OPTIONS |