Re: [Census] So who uses git?

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>>For example, I had a hard time explaining to a friend why a git-add'ed 
>>file is committed when saying "git commit some_other_file", but not 
>>another (modified) file. Very unintuitive.
> 
> I really think you should explain it one of two ways:
> 
>  - 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.
> 
>  - talk about the index, and revel in it as a way to explain the staging 
>    area. This is what the old tutorial.txt did before it got simplified.
> 
> The "ignore the index" approach is the simple one to explain. It's 
> strictly less powerful, but hey, what else is new? 
>