Re: [Census] So who uses git?

From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Date: Jan 31, 2006, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <1138734110.18852.26.camel@evo.keithp.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601310926330.7301@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 09:30 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  - ignore it. Never _ever_ use git-update-index directly, and don't tell 
>    people about use individual filenames to git-commit. Maybe even add 
>    "-a" by default to the git-commit flags as a special installation 
>    addition.

As a newly initiated user, this would have been a more gentle introduction to the system. But, it would be hard to make it entirely invisible given the current interfaces. I'm not sure if obscuring the presense of the index is a great plan; it's already hard enough to figure out how it works.

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keith.packard@intel.com

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