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Re: git-scm.com refresh

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 5, 2012, 01:31 UTC
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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> writes:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I just shipped a big update to the git-scm.com website,...

Thanks. The Reference Manual area lists "apply" in a very funny place. It should go together with "diff", whichever section you decide to put "diff" in. As "diff" is listed in "Basic Snapshotting", and it will not be able to achieve that without being able to apply its output back to the working tree or to the index, I would suggest moving "apply" to the section as well.

I am fairly happy about the look of the new site except for a few things ;-).

It seems that you are trying to advocate "staging area" as some sort of official term. I think "it is like a staging area" is a good phrase to use when answering "what is the index?", but I think repeating it million times without telling the casual readers what its official name is is counterproductive. Don't do that. It will confuse these same people when they start reading manuals.

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  1. Scott ChaconMay 4, 2012
  2. Jakub NarebskiMay 5, 2012
  3. Scott ChaconMay 5, 2012
  4. Josh JuranMay 5, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 5, 2012
  6. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2012
  7. Scott ChaconMay 5, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2012
  9. Felipe ContrerasMay 6, 2012
  10. Scott ChaconMay 6, 2012
  11. Philip OakleyMay 6, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 7, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  14. Andreas SchwabMay 8, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 8, 2012
  16. Andrew SayersMay 5, 2012
  17. Felipe ContrerasMay 5, 2012
  18. Philip OakleyMay 5, 2012
  19. Neal KreitzingerMay 6, 2012
  20. Neal KreitzingerMay 6, 2012
  21. Matthieu MoyMay 6, 2012
  22. Scott ChaconMay 6, 2012
  23. Christian CouderMay 7, 2012
  24. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 7, 2012
  25. A Large Angry SCMMay 7, 2012
  26. Matthieu MoyMay 7, 2012
  27. Heiko VoigtMay 9, 2012
  28. Antonio OspiteMay 8, 2012

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