Re: [Census] So who uses git?

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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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? 

I think both of these are probably the wrong answer, and it's pretty 
much a matter of the git model violating the principle of least 
surprise.  Perhaps added (or removed?) files need to be handled in a 
different way than they currently are.

	-hpa