Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

You probably should not teach people about that feature right away, 
because it has huge potential of shooting-yourself-in-your-own-foot.

But darn it, it's _useful_.

I am not saying it is not useful.  It is just I do not think
people should be taught about before understanding what it
means.