Re: [Census] So who uses git?

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Carl Baldwin wrote:

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In general, I think it is grasping the reason for the index file and how 
git commands like git-commit and git-diff interact with it.

IMHO this is the one big showstopper. I had problems explaining the 
concept myself.

For example, I had a hard time explaining to a friend why a git-add'ed 
file is committed when saying "git commit some_other_file", but not 
another (modified) file. Very unintuitive.

I really think you should explain it one of two ways:

 - ignore it. Never _ever_ use git-update-index directly, and don't tell 
   people about use individual filenames to git-commit. Maybe even add 
   "-a" by default to the git-commit flags as a special installation 
   addition.

 - talk about the index, and revel in it as a way to explain the staging 
   area. This is what the old tutorial.txt did before it got simplified.

The "ignore the index" approach is the simple one to explain. It's 
strictly less powerful, but hey, what else is new? 

		Linus