add-patch: improve help for options j, J, k, and K
The options j, J, k, and K don't affect the status of the current hunk. They just go to a different one. This is true whether the current hunk is undecided or not. Avoid misunderstanding by no longer mentioning the current hunk explicitly in their help texts. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
René Scharfe committed
Oct 6, 2025 at 19:19 UTC
2c3cc43f96f9568d5475e46bd1442c5551129ce8
2 files changed
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Documentation/git-add.adoc
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-4
index ad629c46c5..3266ccf105 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-add.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/git-add.adoc
@@ -342,10 +342,10 @@ patch::
d - do not stage this hunk or any of the later hunks in the file
g - select a hunk to go to
/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex
- j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk
- J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk
- k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk
- K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk
+ j - go to the next undecided hunk
+ J - go to the next hunk
+ k - go to the previous undecided hunk
+ K - go to the previous hunk
s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks
e - manually edit the current hunk
p - print the current hunk
add-patch.c
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index b0389c5d5b..912266a3f8 100644
--- a/add-patch.c
+++ b/add-patch.c
@@ -1397,10 +1397,10 @@ static size_t display_hunks(struct add_p_state *s,
}
static const char help_patch_remainder[] =
-N_("j - leave this hunk undecided, see next undecided hunk\n"
- "J - leave this hunk undecided, see next hunk\n"
- "k - leave this hunk undecided, see previous undecided hunk\n"
- "K - leave this hunk undecided, see previous hunk\n"
+N_("j - go to the next undecided hunk\n"
+ "J - go to the next hunk\n"
+ "k - go to the previous undecided hunk\n"
+ "K - go to the previous hunk\n"
"g - select a hunk to go to\n"
"/ - search for a hunk matching the given regex\n"
"s - split the current hunk into smaller hunks\n"