Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

  Hi,

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:55:13PM CEST, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> 
> > As a newbie, I'm agree with Matthieu: the Git's index is surprising for 
> > people coming from CVS/SVN (mindless?) world. So a good documentation 
> > about this, even in tutorials, is really important.
> 
> So, you are not only a newbie, but you have to unlearn some CVS 
> braindamage.
> 
> I don't know how to make it even more prominent that CVS users should read 
> a special introduction first. AFAICT such a hint is in all the appropriate 
> places. (I mean, you would not expect to be able to fly a plane, just 
> because you have learnt to drive a car, wouldn't you?)

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html does not
talk about anything like that (it links to "Git for CVS users" but
that's really just about importing from CVS and the shared repository
workflow).

  On the other hand, I think the tutorial linked above gives quite a
clear explanation of git commit -a, git add etc. Guilhem, what do you
find missing in the tutorial about this topic?

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