From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Imran M Yousuf" Subject: Re: Call Me Gitless Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:10:22 +0600 Message-ID: <7bfdc29a0808190110nddaf57fw5bf40903f3072bff@mail.gmail.com> References: <4b6f054f0808171702q10d89dfey98afa65634d26e91@mail.gmail.com> <7vfxp2m5w8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <905315640808181624w58918a0ao939a3f0462f9dc9e@mail.gmail.com> <48AA7BE9.4040108@sneakemail.com> <7vk5edfn6g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch_(Lists)?=" <4ux6as402@sneakemail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Aug 19 10:11:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVMJh-0004XH-6U for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:11:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754594AbYHSIKn convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:10:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754512AbYHSIKm (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:10:42 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:57442 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754091AbYHSIKi convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:10:38 -0400 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so1408969yxm.1 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:10:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=YJEDtEu5qunDpxagdrNeJeyaqdjJV1xzYzrG/mRp8V8=; b=eWQxXaAz5so0ldqVPYSvGx+A0KHeIdRYis9TXXGZfTRbUmnig0Bm2pZSoSxz4/9pCy yvabUy4xK9gpRITc6ujEp05+V2IM2uBhCEKRk1AJE7dSwQ+5AsdBc2cwuJlf+8diMtuP bhxsRzgseCWKwVaw7OyGD8nEKhGQzzP8XXj3Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=tOTa4KXwog5gVhVcNv/DjJfIDtJHhLMFsNBOMLJgO66uRL1KqDdPoGXvMnvqok1to9 vuj66vVEF25Qw6ZPXDaNiKpkjz07Ef9c62AcSy6XFaYnvF2AVBTpyYquYnnznWMKzn0D HWUi2dYwLqKePOvkQHhSqxiOU2YYJDQxQ1vvg= Received: by 10.151.42.10 with SMTP id u10mr11370388ybj.49.1219133437667; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.225.1 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:10:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7vk5edfn6g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Junio C Hamano wro= te: > "Peter Valdemar M=F8rch (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, hea= r, it > would have been very helpful if X were documented next to Y" stories,= and > coordinate documentation updates after enough such improvement sugges= tions > 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" messag= e > after reading it once, judging it to add extra noise without much mer= it. 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >