On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Jari Aalto wrote: > 2010-12-02 00:49 Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx>: >> You may want to invest in a spell-checker. >> ... Manaula pages are not primarily used to learn things, they are >> used as reference. >> >> Most certainly they are used to learn things. Especially with tools like git. >> Don't know what options you can give to git-diff? Read the manpage! > > That little word "primarily." You don't find anyone who learnt from > manual page first is person is on his 20's. Google is full of Git > videos. Guess which won the sexiest contest. How about me? I'm 25, I've been using git for a couple of years, and the manpages have always been my primary documentation. The videos are great at convincing people to use git. But people always turn to the manpages in order to learn the details. -Kevin Ballard-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html