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authorValentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>2011-05-05 21:58:18 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-05-05 13:31:22 -0700
commit6086ff65dfcf48237bdac6c64a85bef5d34d5b4e (patch)
tree85d4ff8c9edd818d05086424be8d7a800486b845
parenta31538e273bbca23951fa70a0324ac49214d0f10 (diff)
downloadgit-6086ff65dfcf48237bdac6c64a85bef5d34d5b4e.tar.gz
git-reset.txt: better docs for '--patch'
Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis. Also include a better explanation of this option and additionally refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-reset.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-reset.txt b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
index 8481f9db74..b2832fc7eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-reset.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-reset.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git reset' [-q] [<commit>] [--] <paths>...
-'git reset' --patch [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]
+'git reset' [--patch|-p] [<commit>] [--] [<paths>...]
'git reset' [--soft | --mixed | --hard | --merge | --keep] [-q] [<commit>]
DESCRIPTION
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ working tree in one go.
and <commit> (defaults to HEAD). The chosen hunks are applied
in reverse to the index.
+
-This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p` (see
-linkgit:git-add[1]).
+This means that `git reset -p` is the opposite of `git add -p`, i.e.
+you can use it to selectively reset hunks. See the ``Interactive Mode''
+section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `\--patch` mode.
'git reset' [--<mode>] [<commit>]::
This form resets the current branch head to <commit> and