Re: [PATCH 0/3] git help: group common commands by theme

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

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Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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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".

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