Re: Call Me Gitless

["Imran M Yousuf" <imyousuf@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)"  <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com> writes:
>
>> Here, here! That is *exactly* what I was thinking when I started
>> reading this thread: "Hey, the "git diff" stuff was easy enough, it
>> was the reverting (and friends) that caused me trouble!"
>>
>> Also, in the same area, I've now understood that to undo a "git add" -
>> to remove a change from the index and making it show up as a
>> difference between the working tree and the index - one can use "git
>> ... Would've been helpful to me to have a
>> sentense or paragraph about that in git-add.txt,...
>
> Wonderful.
>
> Can somebody who is relatively (but not extremely) new to git can
> volunteer to be a documentation secretary to collect these "Hear, hear, it
> would have been very helpful if X were documented next to Y" stories, and
> coordinate documentation updates after enough such improvement suggestions
> are collected?
>
> People who lost git virginity like myself cannot do this sensibly and
> fairly.  For example, as my mind is already contaminated enough that I
> discarded the original "add this as Discussion item to revert" message
> after reading it once, judging it to add extra noise without much merit.

I would not agree it to be a part of git-add man page, but rather it
should be a part of doc that explains basic git commands and their
flows. I feel that we need a place where git flows are explained. IMO,
gitwiki is a great place for it. I would like to volunteer to add
these pages to Wiki.

Best regards,

Imran

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