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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-08-07 23:03:36 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-08-07 23:03:36 -0700
commit3a5d13a3c32e0f39d8fc83330255fac27af5d853 (patch)
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downloadgit-3a5d13a3c32e0f39d8fc83330255fac27af5d853.tar.gz
commit: --dry-run
This teaches --dry-run option to "git commit". It is the same as "git status", but in the longer term we would want to change the semantics of "git status" not to be the preview of commit, and this is the first step for doing so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-commit.txt7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-commit.txt b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
index b5d81be7ec..d01ff5adae 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-commit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-commit.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-commit - Record changes to the repository
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend]
+'git commit' [-a | --interactive] [-s] [-v] [-u<mode>] [--amend] [--dry-run]
[(-c | -C) <commit>] [-F <file> | -m <msg>]
[--allow-empty] [--no-verify] [-e] [--author=<author>]
[--cleanup=<mode>] [--] [[-i | -o ]<file>...]
@@ -198,6 +198,11 @@ specified.
--quiet::
Suppress commit summary message.
+--dry-run::
+ Do not create a commit, but show a list of paths that are
+ to be committed, paths with local changes that will be left
+ uncommitted and paths that are untracked.
+
\--::
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.