Hi, On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote: > Defaulting to --cached would be an obvious way to avoid data-loss. _At > least_, mentionning --cached in the error message in case of staged > changes would be a considerable step forward. > > At the moment, the non-expert user will have difficulties to unversion > the file without deleting it. I just see it as > > $ git rm foo > error: 'foo' has changes staged in the index > (hint: to hang yourself, try -f) > $ _ What's so wrong with our man pages? You know, there have been man hours invested in them, and they are exclusively meant for consumption by people who do not know about the usage of the commands... Hth, Dscho - 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