On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:12:56AM -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote:

quoted text
> Cool.  "git add -u && git add ." does exactly what I want.
> 
> This is only indirectly mentioned in the documentation.  If you think
> it's reasonable to mention it more explicitly, I've attached a patch.

Yeah, the term "update" is not really defined there. I actually prefer
to mention it even earlier in the paragraph; does this make sense to
you?

diff --git a/Documentation/git-add.txt b/Documentation/git-add.txt
index 35e67a0..e2389e3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	the specified filepatterns before exiting.
 
 -u::
-	Update only files that git already knows about. This is similar
+	Update only files that git already knows about, staging modified
+	content for commit and marking deleted files for removal. This
+	is similar
 	to what "git commit -a" does in preparation for making a commit,
 	except that the update is limited to paths specified on the
 	command line. If no paths are specified, all tracked files in the
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