From: James Pickens Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:11:25 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modified the default git help message to be grouped by topic Message-ID: <885649360812021211u3d547982i8e1c3070972363e8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Scott Chacon wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Junio C Hamano 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. James