Documentation: git-commit -a

A bit more elaboration on what "update all paths" means.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index e0ff74f..e35984d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ information.
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -a|--all::
-       Update all paths in the index file.
+       Update all paths in the index file.  This flag notices
+       files that have been modified and deleted, but new files
+       you have not told about git are not affected.
 
 -c or -C <commit>::
        Take existing commit object, and reuse the log message