diff --git a/builtin/add.c b/builtin/add.c
index f8e51f9b03..f7a17e43f6 100644
--- a/builtin/add.c
+++ b/builtin/add.c
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static struct option builtin_add_options[] = {
 	OPT__FORCE(&ignored_too, "allow adding otherwise ignored files"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('u', "update", &take_worktree_changes, "update tracked files"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "intent-to-add", &intent_to_add, "record only the fact that the path will be added later"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "all", &addremove, "add all, noticing removal of tracked files"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('A', "all", &addremove, "add changes from all tracked and untracked files"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "refresh", &refresh_only, "don't add, only refresh the index"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-errors", &ignore_add_errors, "just skip files which cannot be added because of errors"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN( 0 , "ignore-missing", &ignore_missing, "check if - even missing - files are ignored in dry run"),
diff --git a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
index 35c151d7ea..afac5b56a8 100755
--- a/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
+++ b/t/t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors.sh
@@ -446,6 +446,8 @@ test_expect_success \
 test_expect_success \
 	'encode(commit): utf8' \
 	'. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-utf8.txt &&
+	 test_when_finished "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=\"A U Thor\"" &&
+	 test_when_finished "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=\"C O Mitter\"" &&
 	 echo "UTF-8" >> file &&
 	 git add file &&
 	 git commit -F "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3900/1-UTF-8.txt &&
@@ -454,11 +456,13 @@ test_expect_success \
 test_expect_success \
 	'encode(commit): iso-8859-1' \
 	'. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3901-8859-1.txt &&
+	 test_when_finished "GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=\"A U Thor\"" &&
+	 test_when_finished "GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=\"C O Mitter\"" &&
 	 echo "ISO-8859-1" >> file &&
 	 git add file &&
 	 git config i18n.commitencoding ISO-8859-1 &&
+	 test_when_finished "git config --unset i18n.commitencoding" &&
 	 git commit -F "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/t3900/ISO8859-1.txt &&
-	 git config --unset i18n.commitencoding &&
 	 gitweb_run "p=.git;a=commit"'
 
 test_expect_success \