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From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
To: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git rm --cached should be git rm --cache or git rm --stage
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 17:25:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160820072500.GC24992@x220-a02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160820072214.GB24992@x220-a02>

   Please CC me :)

> From man git-rm:
> 
> --cached
>   Use this option to unstage and remove paths only from the index.
>   Working tree files, whether modified or not, will be left alone.
> 
> 
> This wording is unclear and dangerous, and ought be cleaned up somehow.
> 
> Probably also the option name should change.
> 
> See here for examples of community self-help compensating for git-rm man
> page's particularly bad wording:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6919121/why-are-there-2-ways-to-unstage-a-file-in-git


Also, perhaps a git porcelain command "git unstage" to unstage staged
changes.  Something small like this might make a huge difference for git
newbies.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-20  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-20  7:22 git rm --cached should be git rm --cache or git rm --stage Zenaan Harkness
2016-08-20  7:25 ` Zenaan Harkness [this message]
2016-08-20 17:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-08-20 19:14 ` Philip Oakley
2016-08-20 22:25   ` Zenaan Harkness
2016-08-20 23:06     ` Philip Oakley

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