tutorial: talk about user.name early and don't start with commit -a

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 5e3112943d1947dbd8b58c23dd535eb4d527b80f..6342ea33e4a34f19ca04c79157d80cb230c15f5c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ 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.
+       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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