Please CC me :) > From man git-rm: > > --cached > Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index. > Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be left alone. > > > This wording is unclear and dangerous, and ought be cleaned up somehow. > > Probably also the option name should change. > > See here for examples of community self-help compensating for git-rm man > page's particularly bad wording: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6919121/why-are-there-2-ways-to-unstage-a-file-in-git Also, perhaps a git porcelain command "git unstage" to unstage staged changes. Something small like this might make a huge difference for git newbies. -- 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