Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 03:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20070803030459.GJ20052@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070802181853.GB31885@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:

> > +Beyond the basic operation of staging and unstaging complete files,
> > +git gui can also selectively stage diff hunks.  You can do so by

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> I wonder whether we could get away with just the brief list of features
> ("lets you view changes in the index and the working file, lets you
> individually select diff hunks for inclusion in the index"), and leave
> the how-to stuff to online guit-gui help, if it's necessary?

Online help?  In git-gui?  :-)

We don't have an online help system yet. Basically no documentation has been written for git-gui. No thought has been put into how one should be organized, maintained, or displayed to the poor human who is just trying to learn more about Git and this gui thing it came with.

Yes, Help->Online Documentation is abvailable to most users, but that just opens your web browser (if it can find one) and points it to kernel.org's git manual. Not exactly the best material for learning more about git-gui itself.

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Shawn.