Minor correction to Git book

Minor correction to Git book

[Robin Messer]

I'm just learning Git so I don't yet know how to submit this
as a patch, but I'm reading the Git Book to get myself started
and I think there is a mistake on the page at:

http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository

It says: "For another example, if you stage the benchmarks.rb file and
then edit it, you can use git diff to see the changes in the file that
are staged and the changes that are unstaged:"

I believe this should say "git status" rather than "git diff".

--
Robin

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Re: Minor correction to Git book

[John Keeping]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Robin Messer wrote:
> I'm just learning Git so I don't yet know how to submit this
> as a patch, but I'm reading the Git Book to get myself started
> and I think there is a mistake on the page at:
> 
> http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository
> 
> It says: "For another example, if you stage the benchmarks.rb file and
> then edit it, you can use git diff to see the changes in the file that
> are staged and the changes that are unstaged:"
> 
> I believe this should say "git status" rather than "git diff".

I think the text is correct as it stands.  "git status" shows you that
there are changes that are staged and unstaged, "git diff" (and "git
diff --cached") shows you what those changes are.

RE: Minor correction to Git book

[Robin Messer]

> I think the text is correct as it stands.  "git status" shows you that
> there are changes that are staged and unstaged, "git diff" (and "git
> diff --cached") shows you what those changes are.

Thanks, but the command line which follows that text does actually use
"git status" to show which files (staged and unstaged) have changes.
The text I quoted is introducing that command.

Then the next example shows you how to use "git diff" to see what the
actual unstaged changes to those files are.

If this is not the appropriate place to report such things, please point
me at the correct one.

Thanks,

Robin.

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Re: Minor correction to Git book

[John Keeping]

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Robin Messer wrote:
> > I think the text is correct as it stands.  "git status" shows you that
> > there are changes that are staged and unstaged, "git diff" (and "git
> > diff --cached") shows you what those changes are.
> 
> Thanks, but the command line which follows that text does actually use
> "git status" to show which files (staged and unstaged) have changes.
> The text I quoted is introducing that command.
> 
> Then the next example shows you how to use "git diff" to see what the
> actual unstaged changes to those files are.

Ah, OK.  I read your email without looking at the context.

> If this is not the appropriate place to report such things, please point
> me at the correct one.

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