From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 08:29:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index
Message-ID: <20070515082935.GC9096@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87wszagayt.fsf@morpheus.local>

On 2007-05-14 17:57:30 -0700, David Kågedal wrote:

> 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

I agree. (But for the record, I find the existing Emacs mode
tremendously useful too. It's just that in some circumstances, you can
get confused if you don't know what you're doing.)

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