Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Mon, 7 May 2007, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
>
>> As a newbie, I'm agree with Matthieu: the Git's index is surprising for 
>> people coming from CVS/SVN (mindless?) world. So a good documentation 
>> about this, even in tutorials, is really important.
>
> So, you are not only a newbie, but you have to unlearn some CVS 
> braindamage.

Well, people worried that documentation and command set before
1.5.0 exposed index too much, making learning curve too steep by
having one extra thing people need to learn before starting to
be productive with git.  Now post 1.5.0 people are confused,
quite rightly, that they are not told about index early enough.

I am not sure where to strike the right balance should be.

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> I don't know how to make it even more prominent that CVS users should read 
> a special introduction first. AFAICT such a hint is in all the appropriate 
> places. (I mean, you would not expect to be able to fly a plane, just 
> because you have learnt to drive a car, wouldn't you?)

Let alone flying.  Just taxiing straight was hard for me until I
shook the habit I picked up from driving a car.


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