From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:16:15 GMT
Subject: Re: Using a different index and HEAD
Message-ID: <4CE937BF.9010606@dbservice.com>
In-Reply-To: <m3aaldf863.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On 11/13/10 6:25 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt<weigelt@metux.de>  writes:
>
>> I'm currently thinking about an IDE toolkit entirely based on git,
>> which eg. versions every single file save operation (so, IOW: an
>> separately versioned workdir) automatically and later allows to
>> rebase/rework this to tell what really gets committed to the
>> actual working branch. For this multiple indices and refs/HEAD
>> pointers would be very helpful.
> UGFWIWNI (Using Git For What It Was Not Intended) ;-) ?

I haven't seen anyone UGFWIINI for in a long time. Either that or my 
perception of 'not intended for' has changed. Maybe we should make a 
second round of the contest and see what use cases people came up with 
since the first UGFWIINI round (it's been almost two years). I'd 
certainly be interested :)

tom