Re: Two ideas for improving git's user interface

* Carl Worth:

Here's a fundamental question I have, (and thanks to Keith Packard for
helping me to phrase it):

	Is it ever useful (reasonable, desirable) to commit file
	contents that differ from the contents of the working
	directory?

You mean like "darcs record"? 8-)

I think this is very useful functionality.  Granted, it interferes
with a rigorous developer-side regression test policy ("all changes
must have been built and passed the test suite").  But it encourages
things like fixing typos in comments you spot while editing a file for
other reasons.  And you can keep some ugly debugging code while
working on a series of changes.