From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:30:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Hey - A Conceptual Simplication....
Message-ID: <200911181430.13537.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <005a01ca684e$71a1d710$54e58530$@com>

George Dennie wrote:
>
> Instead, Git is treating a manually maintained list of files within the
> working tree as the versioned document, this list being initialized and
> manually amended by the "Git add/rm/mv" commands, etc. 

This feature is called the "index", and is not merely a list of the
files, but also their content.  Please read

  http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git

for a nice explanation why this is a good and useful thing.

> 	"Git commit -x"   -- performs a "Git add ." then a "Git commit"
> 	"Git checkout -x" -- that clean the working tree prior to perform a checkout

That would require supernaturally good maintenance of your .gitignore
to avoid adding or (worse) nuking files by accident.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch