From: Santi <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:02:34 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Document that "git add" only adds non-ignored files.
X-Git-Tag: v1.4.0-rc1~111
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=845ae27bf8161063d7e2e1ca2a76b05bf5d07192;p=git.git

Document that "git add" only adds non-ignored files.

Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 5e311294..6342ea33 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -14,11 +14,13 @@ DESCRIPTION
 A simple wrapper for git-update-index to add files to the index,
 for people used to do "cvs add".
 
+It only adds non-ignored files, to add ignored files use
+"git update-index --add".
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
 <file>...::
-	Files to add to the index.
+	Files to add to the index (see gitlink:git-ls-files[1]).
 
 -n::
         Don't actually add the file(s), just show if they exist.
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ git-add git-*.sh::
 See Also
 --------
 gitlink:git-rm[1]
+gitlink:git-ls-files[1]
 
 Author
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