From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>,
Christian Jaeger <christian@jaeger.mine.nu>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 22:05:35 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707022205210.4071@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq7ipittl2.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
Hi,
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Defaulting to --cached would be an obvious way to avoid data-loss. _At
> least_, mentionning --cached in the error message in case of staged
> changes would be a considerable step forward.
>
> At the moment, the non-expert user will have difficulties to unversion
> the file without deleting it. I just see it as
>
> $ git rm foo
> error: 'foo' has changes staged in the index
> (hint: to hang yourself, try -f)
> $ _
What's so wrong with our man pages? You know, there have been man hours
invested in them, and they are exclusively meant for consumption by people
who do not know about the usage of the commands...
Hth,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 18:09 git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 19:42 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:23 ` Christian Jaeger
2007-07-02 20:40 ` Yann Dirson
2007-07-02 20:54 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:05 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-07-03 10:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-03 12:09 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-03 13:40 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-03 14:21 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-04 20:08 ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-05 13:44 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-05 14:00 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-08 17:36 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 18:10 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-08 20:34 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-08 21:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-09 9:45 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:36 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:41 ` [PATCH] More permissive "git-rm --cached" behavior without -f Matthieu Moy
2007-07-13 17:57 ` Jeff King
2007-07-13 18:53 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-14 3:42 ` Jeff King
2007-07-14 0:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-14 6:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 7:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-14 10:14 ` Matthieu Moy
2007-07-02 21:20 ` git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add Christian Jaeger
2007-07-03 4:12 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 4:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 4:59 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 5:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-03 5:12 ` Jeff King
2007-07-03 6:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-07-11 12:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-07-11 18:56 ` Jan Hudec
2007-07-11 21:26 ` Junio C Hamano
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