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> > unknown commands without context is not a guide Quick start != guide, to me. A guide will guide you through thing at a slow pace, a quick start is the quic
by lucb1e 5y ago
> > unknown commands without context is not a guide
Quick start != guide, to me. A guide will guide you through thing at a slow pace, a quick start is the quickest way to get something running/started. And the commands seem fairly self-explanatory, but I could be suffering from the so-called curse of knowledge.
- OJFord 5y agoThat's fine, but 'quick' can still tell you what you're doing. Fwiw, I've used restic for a few years, and (still, if perhaps less) agree the docs are not great.
- lucb1e 5y agoI don't remember really having that issue, though I don't remember the very first use. I think the only time where I remember being a bit confused, was with the 'forget' command, and I would guess that's just because of its nature rather than due to lacking docs. Testing what I thought was correct with --dry-run solved that problem. Mostly I just use restic --help or restic subcommand --help anyhow, rather than the docs. Perhaps I'm just not doing fancy enough things with it and that's why I didn't run into edge cases yet where it lacks documentation?