[Doc]: Dead link in dev workflow docs #29305
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Here's a random snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20100106071734/https://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html It's not a very long page, not too much longer than the page you suggested. It also linked to the Git book, but that seems to have had a v2 refresh and the page no longer exists. Maybe https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Recording-Changes-to-the-Repository is the closest to that. |
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Or just remove the whole comment. Some of this content dates from when we were on the front edge of the SVN -> git transition, where as now git is by far the dominate VC tool. Knowing how to use git is not never a barrier to contributing, but it is a much (much) rarer one than it used to be. |
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Um. I think easiest is "For more information, see why the -a flag? and the git commit manual page."->"For more information, see the git commit manual page." |
Documentation Link
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Problem
In running link checker for the 3.10 release, I found a dead link with the original resource appearing to no longer exist:
doc/devel/development_workflow.rst
146:.. _why the -a flag?: http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html
Suggested improvement
There are probably a number of reasonable alternatives, my leaning though I have not evaluated other alternatives would probably be to replace it with the git official website link about the staging area
https://git-scm.com/about/staging-area
It is not that overwhelmingly detailed, but does have a "if you don't want the full control just use
-a" which is the main point of the link I think.Not sure if there are more beginner focused resources that we may prefer (The previous link did have 'beginner' in the URL, but I do not know what the contents of the page were)
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