Thread (27 messages) flat view 27 messages, 6 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:26

"J. Bruce Fields" [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
+Beyond the basic operation of staging and unstaging complete files,
+git gui can also selectively stage diff hunks.  You can do so by
...
I wonder whether we could get away with just the brief list of features
("lets you view changes in the index and the working file, lets you
individually select diff hunks for inclusion in the index"), and leave
the how-to stuff to online guit-gui help, if it's necessary?
Online help?  In git-gui?  :-)

We don't have an online help system yet.  Basically no documentation
has been written for git-gui.  No thought has been put into how one
should be organized, maintained, or displayed to the poor human
who is just trying to learn more about Git and this gui thing it
came with.

Yes, Help->Online Documentation is abvailable to most users, but
that just opens your web browser (if it can find one) and points
it to kernel.org's git manual.  Not exactly the best material for
learning more about git-gui itself.

-- 
Shawn.
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