Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 10, 2007, 00:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vzm4dplhu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0705090825090.4062@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> And unlike the "simpler" model of committing individual hunks
> with "git add -i" or something like that, my model is actually
> much superior!

I obviously agree with this. As I said a few times I regret introducing "add -i" --- it encourages a wrong workflow, in that what you commit in steps never match what you had in the working tree and could have tested until the very end.

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