Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic

["James Pickens" <jepicken@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> If this list is meant to show "the most commonly used" basics, then you
>> can trim the list somewhat.  For example, "rm" and "mv" can be safely
>> discarded, "status" can be replaced with "diff", and "diff" can be removed
>> from "History Commands".
>>
>
> I sent a new patch that removes 'rm' and 'mv' and removes the
> common-cmd.h build process. I did keep the 'status' command, since in
> my personal experience people tend to like having that command.

Even though 'rm' might not be used very often, I think it's an important
enough command that it should not be removed from the 'basics' list.
AFAIK, the only other way to delete a file is 'rm file' followed by 'git
add -u' or 'git commit -a'.  Imagine a git newbie trying to figure that
out.

I'm tempted to say the same thing about 'mv' as well.  And FWIW, I use
'status' a lot more than I use 'diff', so I would vote to keep 'status' in
the list too.

James