Re: [PATCH] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend)
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Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
- Date
- Aug 3, 2007, 05:08 UTC
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- <B14C42A6-F4BD-40D7-AEAF-66FFF492AB9B@zib.de>
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- <20070802223132.GA15212@fieldses.org>
On Aug 3, 2007, at 12:31 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
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>>> Also, I like the verb "stage" as a way to explain the part of the >>> index >>> file in creating commits, but I've been consistently using the word >>> "index" throughout the user manual, and I think that's consistent >>> with >>> the rest of the documentation--so don't avoid it here. >> >> "staging/unstaging" is how git gui calls adding/removing files to and >> from the index. > > I understand what you meant, but a reader of the user manual at this > point might not, since it's been consistently saying things like > "to add > the contents of a new file to the index, use git add". So we > should use > the same language here. Unless we want to update the whole thing > to use > "stage" and "unstage". I'd rather not.
Agree. But we could briefly introduce git gui's dialect, something like
"git gui lets you select files (use menu 'Commit > Stage to Commit') or individually diff hunks (use 'Stage Hunk For Commit' in context menu of diff view) for inclusion in the index."
Steffen