From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:37:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46893F61.5060401@jaeger.mine.nu> <20070702194237.GN7730@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> <46895EA4.5040803@jaeger.mine.nu> <20070702204051.GP7730@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Yann Dirson , Christian Jaeger , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 03 12:38:23 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I5fm3-0008CE-B1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:38:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754006AbXGCKiU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 06:38:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756647AbXGCKiU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 06:38:20 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:49257 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756504AbXGCKiT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 06:38:19 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l63AbecY006060 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 12:37:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1I5flM-0002fW-CY; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:37:40 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1I5flM-0002pA-A5; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:37:40 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Schindelin , Yann Dirson , Christian Jaeger , git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: (Johannes Schindelin's message of "Mon\, 2 Jul 2007 22\:05\:35 +0100 \(BST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:37:41 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin 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