From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:26:21 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] user-manual: mention git gui citool (commit, amend) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20070805222213.GA12168@fieldses.org> Hi, On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > > git gui is especially useful because it allows to select diff hunks. > > > > You should give a _big_ _fat_ _red_ warning there. > > > > If you selectively commit diff hunks, you _never_ tested what you > > committed. > > A big warning would be out of place in what is for now just an isolated > sentence in two different places. But I agree with you that this would > be worth mentioning in any eventual full-fledged git-gui tutorial. Unfortunately, I am really wasted by this weekend's efforts to bring msysgit.git along... could you be so kind as to cut&paste the relevant section in a reply to me, so I do not have to search for myself? I would not normally ask for such a favour; it is relatively easy to go on a search with Git, but I do have only 8 hours of sleep in the last 60 hours under my saddle... Ciao, Dscho