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Re: Is incremental staging really the common mode?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2008, 00:40 UTC
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david@lang.hm writes:
> also, how many are doing 'git add .' or 'git add *' followed by git
> commit?

Everybody who starts a new history from scratch from an existing tarball would be doing this at least once ;-)

> there were several commands listed that I have never heard of before
> and will want to research to see what they do to see if I should be
> using them.

The commands singled out were either (1) ancient, nobody should be using them, and we would love to prove that nobody is using them anymore so that we can remove them, or (2) reasonably new inventions that would help common situations more than the stock Porcelain we have had for years, to see if they are already widely adopted.

Perhaps somebody (or group of people, taking turns) should post a "git trick of the week" series to this mailing list?

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  1. Elijah NewrenSep 7, 2008
  2. david@lang.hmSep 8, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 8, 2008
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