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Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

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To: Dana How <danahow@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Petr Baudis <pasky@...>, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@...>, <git@...>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 - 1:18 pm

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:33:40AM -0700, Dana How wrote:

That's something several people have asked for, and I think it's a great
idea--I just haven't personally had much time to get to it.  But I'd
happily take even very rough patches and help get them into shape.

The way I'd thought of doing it was having an "examples" section at the
end of each chapter, with subsections for each individual example; see
the one at the end of the "exploring git history" chapter:

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#history-examples

They shouldn't use the material introduced in the associated chapter,
but it's also OK to introduce new commands (with references to the man
pages) when their use in the example is pretty self-explanatory.  (In
fact, this is a great way to introduce more commands and options--git
has so many that it would be tedious to try to be comprehensive, but
they'd fit well in examples.)

The patch-editing stuff discussed above might fit best at the end of
"rewriting history and maintaining patch series".

--b.
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[FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Sun May 6, 12:10 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Guilhem Bonnefille, (Mon May 7, 7:40 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Daniel Barkalow, (Mon May 7, 6:23 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon May 7, 8:55 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Junio C Hamano, (Mon May 7, 3:31 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Sun May 6, 1:25 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Sun May 6, 2:23 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Wed May 9, 1:18 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Martin Langhoff, (Mon May 7, 11:16 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue May 8, 7:07 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Tue May 8, 12:45 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Wed May 9, 11:52 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Junio C Hamano, (Wed May 9, 8:31 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu May 10, 6:06 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Petr Baudis, (Thu May 10, 6:51 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Steven Grimm, (Wed May 9, 10:27 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Wed May 9, 10:39 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Thu May 10, 4:00 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Daniel Barkalow, (Wed May 9, 1:39 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Wed May 9, 2:16 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed May 9, 1:18 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, J. Bruce Fields, (Wed May 9, 1:29 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Martin Langhoff, (Tue May 8, 1:35 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun May 6, 7:51 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Mon May 7, 4:02 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon May 7, 7:05 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Julian Phillips, (Sun May 6, 6:53 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Shawn O. Pearce, (Mon May 7, 9:41 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Shawn O. Pearce, (Tue May 8, 10:52 am)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Linus Torvalds, (Sun May 6, 3:54 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun May 6, 12:51 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Matthieu Moy, (Sun May 6, 1:34 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Sun May 6, 7:42 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Junio C Hamano, (Sun May 6, 1:43 pm)
Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed May 9, 9:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] git-commit: Reformat log messages provided on co..., Johannes Schindelin, (Wed May 9, 11:01 am)
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