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From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 17:26:33 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] git-commit.txt: clarify --patch mode with pathspec
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How pathspec is used, with and without --interactive/--patch, is
different. But this is not clear from the document. These changes hint
the user to keep reading (to option #5) instead of stopping at #2 and
assuming --patch/--interactive behaves the same way.

And since all the options listed here always mention how the index is
involved (or not) in the final commit, add that bit for #5 as well. This
"on top of the index" is implied when you head over git-add(1), but if
you just go straight to the "Interactive mode" and not read what git-add
is for, you may miss it.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-commit.txt | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index 9ec6b3cc17..ac219e9b59 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
 2. by using 'git rm' to remove files from the working tree
    and the index, again before using the 'commit' command;
 
-3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command, in which
+3. by listing files as arguments to the 'commit' command
+   (without --interactive or --patch switch), in which
    case the commit will ignore changes staged in the index, and instead
    record the current content of the listed files (which must already
    be known to Git);
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ The content to be added can be specified in several ways:
    actual commit;
 
 5. by using the --interactive or --patch switches with the 'commit' command
-   to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit,
+   to decide one by one which files or hunks should be part of the commit
+   in addition to contents in the index,
    before finalizing the operation. See the ``Interactive Mode'' section of
    linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate these modes.
 
-- 
2.48.1