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diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index e2389e380b..815864c37f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ git-add - Add file contents to the index
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-add' [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p] [-u] [--refresh]
- [--] <filepattern>...
+'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--force | -f] [--interactive | -i] [--patch | -p]
+ [--update | -u] [--refresh] [--ignore-errors] [--]
+ <filepattern>...
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -50,27 +51,33 @@ OPTIONS
and `dir/file2`) can be given to add all files in the
directory, recursively.
--n, \--dry-run::
+-n::
+--dry-run::
Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
--v, \--verbose::
+-v::
+--verbose::
Be verbose.
-f::
+--force::
Allow adding otherwise ignored files.
--i, \--interactive::
+-i::
+--interactive::
Add modified contents in the working tree interactively to
the index. Optional path arguments may be supplied to limit
operation to a subset of the working tree. See ``Interactive
mode'' for details.
--p, \--patch::
+-p::
+--patch::
Similar to Interactive mode but the initial command loop is
bypassed and the 'patch' subcommand is invoked using each of
the specified filepatterns before exiting.
-u::
+--update::
Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
is similar
@@ -79,10 +86,15 @@ OPTIONS
command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
current directory and its subdirectories are updated.
-\--refresh::
+--refresh::
Don't add the file(s), but only refresh their stat()
information in the index.
+--ignore-errors::
+ If some files could not be added because of errors indexing
+ them, do not abort the operation, but continue adding the
+ others. The command shall still exit with non-zero status.
+
\--::
This option can be used to separate command-line options from
the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken
@@ -95,26 +107,32 @@ Configuration
The optional configuration variable 'core.excludesfile' indicates a path to a
file containing patterns of file names to exclude from git-add, similar to
$GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the exclude file are used in addition to
-those in info/exclude. See link:repository-layout.html[repository layout].
+those in info/exclude. See linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5][repository layout].
EXAMPLES
--------
-git-add Documentation/\\*.txt::
- Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation`
- directory and its subdirectories.
+* Adds content from all `\*.txt` files under `Documentation` directory
+and its subdirectories:
++
+------------
+$ git add Documentation/\\*.txt
+------------
+
Note that the asterisk `\*` is quoted from the shell in this
example; this lets the command to include the files from
subdirectories of `Documentation/` directory.
-git-add git-*.sh::
-
- Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts.
- Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk
- (i.e. you are listing the files explicitly), it does not
- consider `subdir/git-foo.sh`.
+* Considers adding content from all git-*.sh scripts:
++
+------------
+$ git add git-*.sh
+------------
++
+Because this example lets shell expand the asterisk (i.e. you are
+listing the files explicitly), it does not consider
+`subdir/git-foo.sh`.
Interactive mode
----------------
@@ -169,8 +187,9 @@ update::
"Update>>". When the prompt ends with double '>>', you can
make more than one selection, concatenated with whitespace or
comma. Also you can say ranges. E.g. "2-5 7,9" to choose
- 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose
- everything.
+ 2,3,4,5,7,9 from the list. If the second number in a range is
+ omitted, all remaining patches are taken. E.g. "7-" to choose
+ 7,8,9 from the list. You can say '*' to choose everything.
+
What you chose are then highlighted with '*',
like this:
@@ -235,7 +254,7 @@ characters that need C-quoting. `core.quotepath` configuration can be
used to work this limitation around to some degree, but backslash,
double-quote and control characters will still have problems.
-See Also
+SEE ALSO
--------
linkgit:git-status[1]
linkgit:git-rm[1]
@@ -254,4 +273,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite