On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Peter Valdemar Mørch (Lists)" <4ux6as402@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Here, here! That is *exactly* what I was thinking when I started >> reading this thread: "Hey, the "git diff" stuff was easy enough, it >> was the reverting (and friends) that caused me trouble!" >> >> Also, in the same area, I've now understood that to undo a "git add" - >> to remove a change from the index and making it show up as a >> difference between the working tree and the index - one can use "git >> ... Would've been helpful to me to have a >> sentense or paragraph about that in git-add.txt,... > > Wonderful. > > Can somebody who is relatively (but not extremely) new to git can > volunteer to be a documentation secretary to collect these "Hear, hear, it > would have been very helpful if X were documented next to Y" stories, and > coordinate documentation updates after enough such improvement suggestions > are collected? > > People who lost git virginity like myself cannot do this sensibly and > fairly. For example, as my mind is already contaminated enough that I > discarded the original "add this as Discussion item to revert" message > after reading it once, judging it to add extra noise without much merit. I would not agree it to be a part of git-add man page, but rather it should be a part of doc that explains basic git commands and their flows. I feel that we need a place where git flows are explained. IMO, gitwiki is a great place for it. I would like to volunteer to add these pages to Wiki. Best regards, Imran > -- > 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 > -- 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
