The documentation was mistakenly describing the --only semantics to be default. The 1.2.0 release and its maintenance series 1.2.X will keep the traditional --include semantics as the default. Clarify the situation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> --- * This will be part of 1.2.1 maintenance series. Documentation/git-commit.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) 64491e1ea95acde1aa77db539ba498593a0fcbc5 diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt index 53b64fa..5b1b4d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-commit - Record your changes SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-commit' [-a] [-i] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] - [-e] [--author <author>] [--] <file>... +'git-commit' [-a] [-s] [-v] [(-c | -C) <commit> | -F <file> | -m <msg>] + [-e] [--author <author>] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -73,19 +73,39 @@ OPTIONS commit the whole index. This is the traditional behaviour. ---:: - Do not interpret any more arguments as options. - -<file>...:: +-o|--only:: Commit only the files specified on the command line. This format cannot be used during a merge, nor when the index and the latest commit does not match on the specified paths to avoid confusion. +--:: + Do not interpret any more arguments as options. + +<file>...:: + Files to be committed. The meaning of these is + different between `--include` and `--only`. Without + either, it defaults `--include` semantics. + If you make a commit and then found a mistake immediately after that, you can recover from it with gitlink:git-reset[1]. +WARNING +------- + +The 1.2.0 and its maintenance series 1.2.X will keep the +traditional `--include` semantics as the default when neither +`--only` nor `--include` is specified and `paths...` are given. +This *will* change during the development towards 1.3.0 in the +'master' branch of `git.git` repository. If you are using this +command in your scripts, and you depend on the traditional +`--include` semantics, please update them to explicitly ask for +`--include` semantics. Also if you are used to making partial +commit using `--include` semantics, please train your fingers to +say `git commit --include paths...` (or `git commit -i paths...`). + + Discussion ---------- @@ -101,7 +121,7 @@ even the command is invoked from a subdi That is, update the specified paths to the index and then commit the whole tree. -`git commit paths...` largely bypasses the index file and +`git commit --only paths...` largely bypasses the index file and commits only the changes made to the specified paths. It has however several safety valves to prevent confusion. -- 1.2.0.g45dc - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Tue Feb 14 18:53:59 2006
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