Hi, On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, James Pickens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Scott Chacon <schacon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If this list is meant to show "the most commonly used" basics, then > >> you can trim the list somewhat. For example, "rm" and "mv" can be > >> safely discarded, "status" can be replaced with "diff", and "diff" > >> can be removed from "History Commands". > > > > I sent a new patch that removes 'rm' and 'mv' and removes the > > common-cmd.h build process. I did keep the 'status' command, since in > > my personal experience people tend to like having that command. > > Even though 'rm' might not be used very often, I think it's an important > enough command that it should not be removed from the 'basics' list. > AFAIK, the only other way to delete a file is 'rm file' followed by 'git > add -u' or 'git commit -a'. Imagine a git newbie trying to figure that > out. > > I'm tempted to say the same thing about 'mv' as well. And FWIW, I use > 'status' a lot more than I use 'diff', so I would vote to keep 'status' > in the list too. If the whole thing gets longer than 24 lines, we have to leave some things out. Personally, I consider rm and mv unimportant enough that they could be shown in an extended list, but be left out of the summary page. Ciao, 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
