René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[Doc]: Dead link in dev workflow docs","articleBody":"### Documentation Link\n\n_No response_\n\n### Problem\n\nIn running link checker for the 3.10 release, I found a dead link with the original resource appearing to no longer exist:\r\n\r\n\r\ndoc/devel/development_workflow.rst\r\n146:.. _why the -a flag?: http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/18/the-staging-area.html\r\n\n\n### Suggested improvement\n\nThere 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\r\n\r\nhttps://git-scm.com/about/staging-area\r\n\r\nIt 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.\r\n\r\nNot 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)\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ksunden","@type":"Person","name":"ksunden"},"datePublished":"2024-12-14T02:05:18.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/29305/matplotlib/issues/29305"}