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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Sébastien Guimmara" <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, sunshine@sunshineco.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] git help: group common commands by theme
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 10:42:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqbnhw4w3r.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqoalxbo0w.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Wed, 06 May 2015 10:42:55 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> And the answer may confuse that someone even further (it is not
> necessarily "rm", but is often "reset").  As a list of simple
> command set to help the dip-your-toes-in-water process, a new user
> may be better off starting with "add", "add ." and "commit -a", and
> learn from the last part of "git add --help" that there are "rm" and
> "mv" (both of which happen a lot less often than "add").

If one wonders how to remove a file from Git, expecting that user to
look at the doc for "git add" to find out seems really backwards to me.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04 20:28 [PATCH 0/3] git help: group common commands by theme Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-04 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/3] command-list.txt: " Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-06  6:57   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-06 20:58     ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-07 16:50       ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-07 19:23         ` Johannes Sixt
2015-05-08 10:11           ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-08 12:01             ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-08 13:02               ` Johannes Schindelin
2015-05-08 18:43         ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08 19:00           ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-04 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/3] generate-cmdlist.sh: parse common group commands Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08  3:20   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-08  3:39     ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-08 20:55     ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-04 20:28 ` [PATCH 3/3] git help: group common commands by theme Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-06  3:16   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-06 20:31     ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08 21:08     ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08 21:17       ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-08 21:19         ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-08 21:20         ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-06  3:08 ` [PATCH 0/3] " Eric Sunshine
2015-05-06 20:26   ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-06 20:49     ` Eric Sunshine
2015-05-06  3:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-08 18:00   ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08 18:53     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-06  7:59 ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-06 17:42   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-07  8:42     ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2015-05-07 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-08  8:18         ` Matthieu Moy
2015-05-08 16:19           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-07  9:31 ` Emma Jane Hogbin Westby
2015-05-08 18:21   ` Sébastien Guimmara
2015-05-08 18:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-08 20:08       ` Sébastien Guimmara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-01 14:51 Sébastien Guimmara

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