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Re: checkout extra files

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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date
Sep 9, 2012, 13:48 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>> Having said that, it would therefore be better to point folk at gitcli
>> in a few more places, not just the 'see also' line at the very end of
>> the general 'git' page, and buried within rev-parse.
>
> Didn't we update the very early part of git(1) for exactly for that
> reason recently?

I don't think many people read git(1) directly, as there are many other starting points to learn Git (official tutorial, user-manual, and tens of very good tutorial on the web). On the other hand, reading git-<command> is probably much more common, as it is the only place to find exhaustive documentation about a particular command.

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Message 14 of 36 in “checkout extra files”
  1. Angelo BorsottiSep 3, 2012
  2. Carlos Martín NietoSep 3, 2012
  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 3, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2012
  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 4, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  7. Angelo BorsottiSep 4, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2012
  12. Philip OakleySep 8, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2012
  14. Matthieu MoySep 9, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 9, 2012
  16. Philip OakleySep 9, 2012
  17. Jeff KingSep 10, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2012
  19. Jeff KingSep 10, 2012
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2012
  21. 1/2 gitcli: formatting fixJunio C Hamano, Sep 10, 2012
  22. 2/2 gitcli: contrast wildcard given to shell and to gitJunio C Hamano, Sep 10, 2012
  23. Jeff KingSep 10, 2012
  24. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2012
  25. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuySep 4, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  27. Carlos Martín NietoSep 3, 2012
  28. Carlos Martín NietoSep 4, 2012
  29. Angelo BorsottiSep 4, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  31. Angelo BorsottiSep 4, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  33. Philip OakleySep 4, 2012
  34. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  35. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2012
  36. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2012

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