On 8 sep 2008, at 00:48, Junio C Hamano wrote:
I would agree that "hint is often given in #git" is an indication that
people do not know "git checkout" to check out the path from the
index to
get rid of the change. I further suspect that "I modified my file
and git
status says 'Changed but not updated'; what should I do" may not be
asked
often anymore, which might owe the hint we have in status output.
Even
then, I do not necessarily agree that the status output (yes, I am
also
questioning the existing hints as well) is the best place to teach
these
people.
Yes, this seems unclear to a lot of people. How about a small and
focused
man-page or similar to help people explain the differences between the
working directory, the index and HEAD? Then we can just add something
like
If you are unsure what to do, run `git help stage-changes`
or so. This would differ from the git-commit man-page in that there is
less clutter and most likely contains the information the user needs
at the top of the page.
- Pieter
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