From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:28:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] New 'stage' command
Message-ID: <94a0d4530904051228m4e57ec90y810dded41f47e443@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyausz3h.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This is the list of actions I've mapped:
>>
>>  * add: git stage = git stage add (git add)
>>  * rm: (git rm --cached)
>>  * diff: (git rm --cached)
>>  * import: stage all files; modified, deleted, new
>>  * ls: (git ls-files --stage)
>
> I do not think these are good ideas at all, as it just spreads more
> confusion, not less.

Do you agree that there's already a lot of confusion? (stage, cache,
index, etc.)

And do you agree that many git newbies don't use the stage? Actually
most of them don't even know what it is, and just do "git commit -a".

If so, how do you think these issues should be handled?

-- 
Felipe Contreras