Re: git-rm isn't the inverse action of git-add

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 12:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707031308170.4071@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <vpqoditkc23.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > What's so wrong with our man pages? You know, there have been man 
> > hours invested in them, and they are exclusively meant for consumption 
> > by people who do not know about the usage of the commands...
> 
> What's wrong is just that I shouldn't have to read a man page to avoid
> data-loss.

Okay, Mr Moy. How did you learn that "rm" leads to data-loss? Because it does. Hmm. How did you expect then, that git-rm does _not_ lead to data loss? If in doubt, you _have_ to read the manual. Especially if the tool is powerful.

Ciao, Dscho