Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The "index" file (see gitindex(5)) typically holds a snapshot of >> the content of the working tree, and it is this snapshot that is >> taken as the content of the next commit. Thus after making any >> changes to the working directory, and before running the commit >> command, you must use the add command to add any new or modified >> files. > > I find this paragraph completely unnecessary. This is useless > distraction; the user wants to know about 'git add', she doesn't need > to know about the index, and we should hide it from her. Ok. Have you seen the current git-add(1) manpage? Do you have patches that improve it to avoid such useless background information in a non-confusing way? Jonathan -- 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