From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:37:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqoditkc23.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707022205210.4071@racer.site> (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon\, 2 Jul 2007 22\:05\:35 +0100 \(BST\)")
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> What's so wrong with our man pages? You know, there have been man hours
> invested in them, and they are exclusively meant for consumption by people
> who do not know about the usage of the commands...
What's wrong is just that I shouldn't have to read a man page to avoid
data-loss. I should have to read them to do non-trivial things, for
sure.
Useability is not just about documenting surprising behaviors, it's
really about avoiding them.
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 18:09 git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 19:42 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:23 ` Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 20:40 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 10:37 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2007-07-03 12:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 13:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-03 14:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-04 20:08 ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-05 13:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-05 14:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-08 17:36 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 18:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 20:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 21:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 9:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:36 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:41 ` [PATCH] More permissive "git-rm --cached" behavior without -f Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:57 ` Jeff King
2007-07-13 18:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-14 3:42 ` Jeff King
2007-07-14 0:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-14 6:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 7:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 10:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:20 ` git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-03 4:12 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 4:59 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 5:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 5:12 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 12:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-11 18:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-11 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
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