X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-add.txt;h=7e293834d18982e7ae5d1d6fd057304994978318;hb=b463ceb885290a6656239ff3f1e73c5774dc8ee9;hp=4cae41267a903d21e6745b3fb45963b6da4dad04;hpb=56fc63193975edd4b9f520b6c65c2b97ecd8ee38;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt index 4cae4126..7e293834 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-add.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-add - Add files to the index file. SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-add' [-n] [-v] ... +'git-add' [-n] [-v] [--] ... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -26,12 +26,17 @@ OPTIONS -v:: Be verbose. +--:: + This option can be used to separate command-line options from + the list of files, (useful when filenames might be mistaken + for command-line options). + DISCUSSION ---------- The list of given to the command is fed to `git-ls-files` -command to list files that are not registerd in the index and +command to list files that are not registered in the index and are not ignored/excluded by `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file or `.gitignore` file in each directory. This means two things: