Re: Command-line interface thoughts

Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] writes:

Wouldn't the four trees described above contain information equivalent
to the contents of the index?

In the same sense that you can re-create the state in the index by running
the merge again between HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, yes, they probably do, but is
that a useful question to ask?

I think this mega-thread served its purpose. It started to explore "will
it make it easier to understand and explain if we use these tokens to name
trees that do not exist in reality?" which is a worthy thing to do.  The
conclusion appears to be "well we do not even know what exactly these
tokens mean in certain situations." but at least people tried, and along
the way a few new people seem to have become more aware of the index, so
overall we didn't lose that much.