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

"Guilhem Bonnefille" [off-list ref] writes:

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.

And it's broken as well.  If you "update" in the emacs mode you cannot
do a "git commit" in a terminal without manually running "git
update-index" first.

I think an emacs-mode that is closer to git-gui would be better, and
closer to the git philosophy

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David Kågedal