Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

On 2007-05-07 13:40:33 +0200, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:

In order to improve my productivity with Git, and in order to avoid
traps around moving from SVN to Git, I often use the Git Emacs mode.
It is really usefull for beginners as it works similarly for CVS,
SVN and Git: synthetic view of all modifications, easy selection of
what will be commited... The biggest drawback of this "porcelain":
using it, you do not understand the Git's index philosophy.

git-gui is a good tool here (so good, in fact, that this is the second
time today I spam the list about it). It shows very pedagogically the
diff between HEAD and index, and the diff between index and working
dir, and allows you to point and click your way to committing
precisely the subset of changes you intended to commit. As an added
bonus, it's perfectly usable even if you don't know anything about
emacs.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle