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: Fri, 08 May 2015 10:18:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqioc38ot3.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq7fskp6qf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 07 May 2015 11:44:56 -0700")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, but you are moving the goalpost.
Yes, because Git has more than one user and each user may have different
ways of thinking. I both find it weird to present "add" without "rm" and
to expect users to look at the doc for "add" to find "rm".
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-08 8:19 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
2015-05-07 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-08 8:18 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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
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2015-05-01 14:51 Sébastien Guimmara
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