Subject: [PATCH] Document that "git add" only adds non-ignored files.

From: Santi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 23:02:34 +0200

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <[email-masked]>

---

 Documentation/git-add.txt |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 5e31129..1b6a22a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -7,18 +7,20 @@ git-add - Add files to the index file

 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <file>...
+'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] <filepattern>...

 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
 for people used to do "cvs add".

+It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
+"git update-index --add".

 OPTIONS
 -------
-<file>...::
-       Files to add to the index.
+<filepattern>...::
+       Files to add to the index, see gitlink:git-ls-files[1].

 -n::
         Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ git-add git-*.sh::
 See Also
 --------
 gitlink:git-rm[1]
+gitlink:git-ls-files[1]

 Author
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