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

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: May 15, 2007, 00:57 UTC
Message-ID: <87wszagayt.fsf@morpheus.local>
In-Reply-To: <8b65902a0705070440t40889af0p1fb8dbf7e2a072e4@mail.gmail.com>

"Guilhem Bonnefille" <guilhem.bonnefille@gmail.com> writes:

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> In order to improve my productivity with Git, and in order to avoid
> traps around moving from SVN to Git, I often use the Git Emacs mode.
> It is really usefull for beginners as it works similarly for CVS, SVN
> and Git: synthetic view of all modifications, easy selection of what
> will be commited... The biggest drawback of this "porcelain": using
> it, you do not understand the Git's index philosophy.

And it's broken as well. If you "update" in the emacs mode you cannot do a "git commit" in a terminal without manually running "git update-index" first.

I think an emacs-mode that is closer to git-gui would be better, and closer to the git philosophy

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David Kågedal