Re: [PATCH 0/3] git help: group common commands by theme
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Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
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- May 7, 2015, 08:42 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> And the answer may confuse that someone even further (it is not > necessarily "rm", but is often "reset"). As a list of simple > command set to help the dip-your-toes-in-water process, a new user > may be better off starting with "add", "add ." and "commit -a", and > learn from the last part of "git add --help" that there are "rm" and > "mv" (both of which happen a lot less often than "add").
If one wonders how to remove a file from Git, expecting that user to look at the doc for "git add" to find out seems really backwards to me.
-- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/