From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Abrahams Subject: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:38:52 -0400 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 22 21:40:57 2009 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 1LwiJO-00050R-I0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753601AbZDVTjJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:39:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753384AbZDVTjH (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:39:07 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33566 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752876AbZDVTjG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:39:06 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LwiHg-0000Kd-9a for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:39:04 +0000 Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:39:04 +0000 Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:39:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dumBwOLhnXR5I3wdGetgVckbblE= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#how-to-check-out covers "git reset" way too early, IMO, before one has the conceptual foundation necessary to understand what it means to "modify the current branch to point at v2.6.17". If this operation must be covered this early in the manual, it should probably not be until http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#manipulating-branches HTH, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com